About the author
Christina Holt
Principal software engineer, founder, and author of The Innocence We Leave Behind.
By trade, Christina is a principal software engineer and the founder of Ryker Audit, an independent assurance practice for security, controls, and trust, and of RelativisticQ-PNT. She works at the intersection of enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, AI, advanced computing, and governance — approaching enterprise risk as an architecture problem, not a checklist exercise, and designing organizations and systems that are secure, resilient, auditable, and built to scale.
Backed by a diverse background that spans international Grand Prix equestrian sport, enterprise cybersecurity, and corporate governance, she brings a distinct, multi-layered perspective to navigating high-stakes conflict.
In her writing, Christina chronicles the harrowing experience of surviving an ex-partner's calculated campaign to dismantle her personal and professional life through legal manipulation. Combining her academic foundation in anthropology and management information systems with relentless discipline, she explores the psychological toll of institutional abuse, the vulnerabilities of the legal framework, and the endurance required to rebuild from the ground up.
The lenses she writes through
FEI Grand Prix show jumping
A USEF professional and FEI international athlete, she competed in CSI and Grand Prix rings while managing high-performance equine programs — the origin of her discipline under pressure and the long patience of rebuilding trust.
Enterprise cybersecurity
IBM & ISC² certified, with deep work in infrastructure protection and critical systems. A systems engineer's eye for how manipulation works: find the weak point, exploit the process, cover the trail.
AI & advanced computing
From AI/ML architecture and scientific computing to post-quantum security and high-reliability system design — the same rigor she now applies to how institutions fail the people they claim to protect.
Corporate governance
Trained in intellectual property law, European business law, and global procurement and sourcing — an understanding of how institutions are supposed to protect people, and where they quietly fail.
Credentials
- M.S. Management Information Systems — University of Arizona, Eller College of Management
- B.S. Anthropology — Arizona State University
- IBM & ISC² Cybersecurity and AI Engineering
- Microsoft Cybersecurity Analyst & AI/ML Engineer
- Intellectual Property Law — University of Pennsylvania