Chris Klapp
Innovation Advisor
Greater Chattanooga United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Klapp is a founder and forward-deployed applied AI engineer with 14 years of experience building large-scale web systems across machine translation, video transcoding/streaming, e-learning, and email marketing. He blends hands-on engineering and product leadership—having served as CTO and led R&D initiatives—while holding patents in video encoding and pursuing translation-related IP. Chris specializes in turning high-risk, seemingly impossible problems into polished, scalable solutions and focuses on leveraging NLP/CL to reduce bottlenecks in translation quality workflows. A pragmatic people leader, he balances vision-setting with detailed collaboration and prioritizes educating clients so expectations align with delivery. Based in Greater Chattanooga, he continues to advise innovation labs and build applied AI products that reconcile technical rigor with real-world linguistic needs.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Missions/Missionary Studies and Missiology, Missions/Missionary Studies and Missiology at Tennessee Temple University
Github Skills (200)
minecraft10
react-redux10
scripture-open-components10
javascript10
desktop-application10
react-component10
phrase10
deepl10
translator10
ufw10
translation10
stopwords10
bag-of-words10
finder10
translate10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
unfoldingWord-box3/translation-helps
Nov 2018 - Jul 2020
A Viewer for unfoldingWord's Open Licensed Translation Resources.
Contributions:1 release, 392 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 8 months
licensedtranslationdeepltranslateviewer
unfoldingWord/proskomma-react-hooks
Sep 2021 - Aug 2022
A collection of React Hooks that provide a way to simplify the implementation of Proskomma into your React projects.
Contributions:5 reviews, 156 commits, 18 PRs in 11 months
reactreact-projectsreact-hookssimplifyhooks
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