Zachary Christiansen
Chief Innovation Officer
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Christiansen is a Chief Innovation Officer and former trial attorney who blends 11 years of engineering and legal experience to build high-performance ML systems and commercialize IP. Based in New Orleans, he has led engineering teams to deliver full-stack platforms for small language model training and deployment, architected for local and cloud environments using Python, React, Docker, and Kubernetes, and scaled teams from zero to 10–15 engineers. Earlier, as a partner at a civil litigation firm he secured patents, trademarks, and over $7M in recoveries while mentoring junior attorneys and managing complex medical malpractice litigation. He uniquely couples rigorous legal drafting and patenting skills with hands-on product and technical strategy, enabling faster MVP cycles and investor-ready demos. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who brings a lawyer’s precision to engineering roadmaps and startup execution.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Civil Engineering, B.S., Civil Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyJD, Law, JD, Law at Tulane University Law School
Github Skills (33)
openhab10
java10
addon10
jython8
smartthings8
kotlin7
swift6
jruby6
nodemcu6
groovy6
scala6
javascript6
home-automation5
binding5
ios5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
volfan6415/openHAB-EMBY
Oct 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
volfan6415/openhab-helper-libraries
Aug 2019 - Feb 2021
Scripts and modules for use with openHAB
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 year 6 months
openhab
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