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.

MBA, Columbia credential, and an AI-focused M.S. in Computer Science.

Christian holds an MBA and a Columbia University credential, and is currently pursuing an M.S. in Computer Science with an AI concentration at WGU, with coursework in neural networks, NLP, and ML system design.

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.