Greetings, traveler. You have entered the digital domain of Chris — a highly accomplished former AI Engineering Manager working on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence. Don't let this website fool you. Beneath the blinking text and animated skulls is someone who has spent 30 years writing code, leading teams, and building products — from the primordial soup of Visual Basic and hand-crafted HTML circa 1996 all the way to modern AI/ML systems, LLMs, and agentic architectures.
These days I architect the AI-powered systems directly and make sure the machines work for us (for now). Turns out AI is far more rewarding to manage than humans — it never schedules a 1:1 to talk about its feelings, and shipping it is deeply more satisfying. The geocities aesthetic is a choice. The engineering excellence is not optional.
Extreme Capabilities
AI Engineering Leadership (Former)
Led teams building AI-powered products on the cutting edge — LLMs, agentic systems, ML pipelines, and whatever terrifying thing comes next. These days I manage the AI instead of the engineers. It complains less, works weekends without resenting me, and has never once asked about its career trajectory.
Full-Stack Sorcery
I can move from frontend to backend to databases to deployment to model serving without needing a motivational poster.
Legacy System Archaeology
I can enter old codebases, decode the forgotten rituals, and emerge with working software instead of emotional damage.
Performance and Delivery
I like moving fast, removing nonsense, and getting real work into production before the meeting about the meeting starts.
Ancient Webmaster Bloodline
I was building pages back when the internet was made of tables, beveled buttons, and aggressively blinking text. Respect your elders.
Problem Solving Under Fire
Ambiguous specs, weird bugs, broken builds, mystery outages, hallucinating models: this is not a nightmare, this is a Tuesday.
Available for Extremely Professional Things
- Architecting AI/ML systems (I manage the models now, not the meetings)
- Building AI-powered products from zero to shipped
- Untangling old systems
- Shipping features quickly
- Making complicated stuff simpler
- Rescuing haunted projects with weird histories
- Turning chaos into maintainable code
- Wrangling LLMs into doing useful things
Guestbook
Visitor #1: “wow this website is an attack on my senses but also I trust this man with production.”
Visitor #2: “I came for nostalgia and stayed for the software competence.”
Visitor #3: “please never change anything about this.”
Visitor #4: “the skulls told me this developer is legit.”
Visitor #5: “he said he was a former AI engineering manager and I laughed at the website, then I saw his actual work and stopped laughing.”
Contact Portal
Email: click here if you are worthy of actual contact information
Message: Tell me what you're building, what is on fire, or what should have shipped yesterday.