Chris Sanchez
Artificial Intelligence Consultant at Information Retrieval / Agentic Search
Lehi, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Sanchez is an Artificial Intelligence Consultant with nine years of experience applying data science and production-grade ML to national security and enterprise information retrieval problems. A former Navy SEAL who transitioned into tech, he blends operational rigor and leadership with deep experience in NLP, retrieval, and forward-deployed engineering across Microsoft and defense-focused startups. He has led AI delivery for sensitive federal customers, spun strategic contracts into product applications, and now advises an invite-only client list on improving internal search and IR systems. Known for moving models from prototype to secure, scalable production in high-consequence environments, he’s comfortable bridging engineering, product, and mission stakeholders. Based in Lehi, Utah, he holds a Master of Information and Data Science from UC Berkeley and brings a track record of driving disruptive organizational change under pressure. An uncommon strength is his ability to translate field-hardened operational practices into repeatable ML engineering processes for national-security use cases.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Information and Data Science, Master of Information and Data Science at University of California, BerkeleyThe University of Utah
Chinese, English, German
Github Skills (54)
json10
sentence10
keyword-search10
application10
image-search9
electra9
multilingual9
similarity-search9
search-engine9
semantic-search9
llm9
similarity9
regex9
vector-database9
approximate-nearest-neighbor-search9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
americanthinker/SOF_Veteran_Analysis
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:182 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
americanthinker/rag-applications
Nov 2023 - Feb 2025
RAG applications repo for Uplimit course
Contributions:3 reviews, 207 PRs, 208 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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