Summary
Keith Hanson is a GenAI consultant and hands-on builder with 15+ years of shipping production systems, currently running Vanguard Vision Technologies to help organizations move experimental AI into real-world operations. He specializes in agentic architectures, voice AI pipelines, RAG infrastructure, and in-house LLM deployments—bridging the gap between prototypes and resilient production that meets regulatory and operational constraints. Previously a city CTO and principal product engineer, he has a track record of delivering high-impact, cost-conscious solutions (from a Real-Time Crime Center to garbage-truck–mounted digital divide mapping) and scaling teams and products across government and enterprise. He designs and delivers the first working version himself, then documents and trains organizations to scale it, and runs bootcamps that make non-developers fluent in agentic development. Outside work he channels hardware tinkering—microscopes, 3D-printed keycaps, ESP32 projects—into practical open-source advances that keep his production AI tooling sharp.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer