Cryptologic linguistics and geospatial intelligence under real operational pressure.

Christian began as a Russian Cryptologic Linguist in the U.S. Air Force, translating encrypted military communications in real time, with reporting reaching the President’s Daily Brief. He later deployed to Iraq as a Geospatial Intelligence Analyst, fusing SIGINT and GEOINT to track IED networks — work that contributed to 8 high-value individual apprehensions and earned an NSA award for combat operations.

Owning high-traffic edtech systems end to end.

He spent 5+ years as a Tech Lead at Western Governors University, owning end-to-end systems across four product teams — architecture, APIs, frontend, testing, deployment, and incident response for high-traffic edtech applications.

Production systems across RAG, agents, and local inference.

He actively builds production AI systems, including RAG pipelines with vector database semantic search, LLM tool-calling agents, local inference servers (Ollama + FastAPI), and async queue-based retrieval at scale.

Trustworthy, intelligent consumer products in established markets.

Through Lared Media, Christian is building a founder-led studio that ships fast without compromising on trust or engineering rigor — starting with professional identity and local discovery, and grounded in hands-on AI systems work.