Chris Thackrey – Resume
Chris Thackrey
Senior Software Engineer
Summary
Accomplished Full-Stack Software Engineer and CTO with a unique multidisciplinary background that bridges high-level design sensibilities with robust technical architecture. Expert in building scalable, AI-driven applications by leveraging deep systems thinking to translate complex business requirements into performant, elegant code. Proven leader with a track record of directing engineering teams through challenging implementations, applying innovative technical strategies to deliver reliable, user-centric solutions. Adept at navigating intricate infrastructure, from automated multi-tenant systems to sophisticated spatial data visualizations, with a relentless focus on quality, security, and strategic project execution.
Technical Skills
Software Engineering Work
Rivendell - AI Development and Research ToolMarch 2025
AI development tool that functions both internally for the company and externally for clients as "version control for reasoning".
- Implemented a monte-carlo algorithm to run large batches of prompt calls in parallel to various large-language AI models (llms), providing more deterministic outcomes by improving reliable code metrics such as compute and readability.
- Engineered LLM-as-judge evaluation pipeline scoring every solution across six quality axes and classifying outputs recommended, viable, or problematic.
- Generated project roadmaps automatically by ranking highest-scoring reasoning steps into five-phase Gantt timelines with milestone markers.
AI Applications for National Education Research Organization*January 2024
AI teaching application featuring a multiplayer AI chat and advanced deep research enabled.
- Engineered a multiplayer AI chat system to route messages across multiple specialized bot variants over authenticated connections, ensuring real-time interactivity while maintaining participant anonymization.
- Created a multi-tenant architecture solution for project deployments by automating tenant provisioning across 27 idempotent stages with persisted state, ensuring safe, resumable infrastructure deployments of dedicated EC2, Supabase, and S3 resources per district.
- Designed and implemented interactive interface templates to facilitate AI context and responses.
- Scored AI outputs across multiple LangSmith evaluators spanning correctness, groundedness, document relevance, schema validity, and processing time.
AI Analysis Tools For International Wildfire Science and Technology Company*October 2024
Cloud-based SaaS offering on-demand wildfire spread prediction capabilities to support operational response.
- Scaled Uber's H3 hex resolution across seven zoom tiers, over-generating twenty-five percent beyond the viewport to effectively erase edge-of-screen rendering gaps.
- Utilized secured Azure backends to make safe API calls to private data from public sources.
- Created AI-driven assessment tools and forecast features to improve event response times for 20,000+ incidents per year.
CRM Management App to Handle Insurance Clients and Leads -lineagecrm.comJanuary 2024
Final expense CRM management app and tool for handling clients and leads, currently deployed with more than 200 active users.
- Powered lead search with a materialized view denormalizing four joined tables, enabling high-performance multi-dimensional filtering across status, source, and location.
- Handled Twilio call lifecycle events with matching teardown, driving mute, timers, and reconnection state in a draggable dialer.
- Completed Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) process from legacy backend into new database connections.
*Subject to NDA. No further details are available.
Professional Experience
Chief Technology Officer, CelaHealthcare Inc. — May 2025 - Present
- Senior Software Engineer and primary inventor of patented healthcare application technology.
- Administrative leader for technical team including 3 developers, data engineer, and project manager.
Principal Software Architect, Silver Bow Technology Group — March 2025 - July 2025
- Lead software engineering team and built the core AI functionality for a "version control for reasoning" dev tool providing AI-driven code-generation, prompt enhancement, architecture strategy, as well as project planning and security features.
Software Engineer, Black Flag Design — January 2024 - March 2025
- Contributed code across five projects in simultaneous development, including Lead Developer of an AI codegen application and internal dev tool, subject to a signed NDA.
- Organized, scripted, and hosted the 'AI DIY' podcast series on AI coding trends and events in the tech industry.