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Chief Information Officer and Group Vice President

Chris Day

Chris Day is CIO at SolarWinds, an IT infrastructure management company headquartered in Austin, Texas, with more than 30 offices and 3,200 employees worldwide. With over 30 years of technology experience ranging in IT to product research and development (R&D), Day assumed the role as SolarWinds CIO after having led the SolarWinds SaaS DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) global divisions. He has held other executive IT positions with BioGen Idec, PegaSystems, and Level(3) Information Services where he also served as CIO. Day holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Bentley University.

The Latest Posts Featuring Chris Day

Inside the Black Box: Bridging the Database Observability Gap
March 27, 2026
Database

Over the past 15 years, Agile and DevOps have accelerated application delivery, enabling faster, more reliable releases. Yet the database layer often remains a blind spot for observability and performance monitoring.

In this article, Kevin Kline shows why closing the database observability gap is critical to improving performance, efficiency, and resilience for DBAs, developers, and the businesses that depend on their data.

Shaping an Observability Journey for the Future
The world of IT has gone through a significant amount of change in the last five to 10 years, and the rate of digital transformation can be challenging for organizations…
SHIELDS UP: CISA Guidance for Cybersecurity
March 2, 2022
Security
As the world sends its support to the people of Ukraine in this time of unrest and uncertainty, the evolving conditions in the region raise the alert for the entire…