Chris is a Navy Veteran, entrepreneur, and team leader with a strong business background, and over 20 years of experience in software and technical leadership.

CEO & Founder @ Backed by premier VC's and used by some of the largest companies in the world, Skycatch is a platform for capturing data using small autonomous aerial robots. Since inception, Skycatch has been innovating in multiple different technology areas including photogrammetry, data analytics, and advanced aerial technology, and is now the fastest growing company in the autonomous aerial mapping market. Skycatch's autonomous data collection platform is built for enterprise with safety, strength and reliability in mind. It can cover large geographic areas, be equipped with different sensors depending on the customer’s needs, and operate in challenging weather conditions. Our proprietary battery-swapping and autonomous landing technology gives our aerial robots the ability to scale and operate without human involvement. Construction, Mining, and other complex job sites around the world are turning to Skycatch to satisfy their need for accurate and real time data. From February 2013 to Present (2 years 11 months) Founder & Chief Organizer @ The most popular programming competition in the world powered by drones Featured on CNN, TheVerge, BoingBoing, TechCrunch and others. In partnership with the prestigious MakerFaire and hosting the yearly world championship for drone hackers worldwide. http://dronegames.co From November 2012 to Present (3 years 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaCTO & Founder @ I helped build the largest community for geeks in the world. Came up with the original product strategy and idea, convinced my friend to join me as cofounder, built the original code base and UI/UX, helped raise seed funding, launched the first MVP in less than 2 months with strong ties to Twitter for spreading the word, picked up fast and in just a few weeks we had more than 10k members, hired the engineering team and continued to lead & grow the product and overall design of the website. Geeklist is now an international brand covering more than 174 countries and has been featured several times on TC, TNW and several other high profile technology blogs and publications. From April 2011 to February 2013 (1 year 11 months) San Francisco Bay AreaCTO @ Provided strategic advice to both founders. Joined with the goal of getting them off the ground and up and running while I planned my new venture (Geeklist) Stablished new development and document process. Rebuilt the entire server infrastructure from the ground up, which included setting up and configuring Mongodb, redis, node.js, nginx, monit, munin, varnish cache and other OS related configurations running on the latest RC of Ubuntu. From November 2010 to April 2011 (6 months) CTO & Vice President of Engineering @ Responsible for overseeing all aspects of identifying, architecting, developing, implementing and maintaining technology solutions to meet the company’s strategic business objectives as well as managing schedules, budgets and staffing for multiple simultaneous projects. From July 2008 to January 2011 (2 years 7 months) Senior Director of Technology / Chief Architect @ Progressed in responsibilities to manage budgeting in collaboration with the CTO/CEO. Direct a Windows-based .NET development team and a Linux-based LAMP development team. Coordinate hiring of new personnel and personally hire technical leads. Provide strategic direction to leads and developers and brainstorm feature development and new designs. Delegate architecture and integration tasks to team members. Formulate and maintain corporate engineering guidelines. Drive critical end processes. From August 2007 to August 2008 (1 year 1 month) Director of Technology / Chief Architect @ Architecting and maintaining scalable and high performance distributed systems, mentoring and leading medium size technical team, researching and adopting new technologies, select and optimize production hardware, oversee development, quality assurance and deployment process, interview and hire new personnel. From April 2006 to August 2007 (1 year 5 months) Technical Lead / Engineer Number One @ Served as lead architect for core infrastructure and foundation for break.com, managing outside contractors responsible for developing some of the very first core components and trans-coding workflow engine and writing all technical specifications. From August 2005 to April 2006 (9 months) Senior Software Engineer @ Responsible for designing and developing software for the current .NET solutions and COM applications. Duties include designing new database schemas, designing OO code structure, writing store procedures, writing database scripts for manipulating data structure, optimizing database tables, porting ASP code to ASP.Net (C#), and maintaining their current VB COM application. Prepared all design documentation. From August 2004 to July 2005 (1 year) Software Engineer @ Selected to provide key leadership and technical expertise for continuous improvement of Disney's Blast, an online subscription portal that delivered games, stories and activities to children. From January 2000 to August 2004 (4 years 8 months) Software Engineer @ Developed backend databases and a shopping cart interface for an online store launch by this major distributor of computer peripherals and electrical equipment. From 1999 to 2000 (1 year) Software Engineer @ Enhanced the functionality and reporting of MSQL and MS Access databases tracking 20,000 medical records for the California Women’s Group. Delivered primary tech support to internal customers. From January 1997 to January 1998 (1 year 1 month) Yeoman, Data Processor & NAVY SEAL Trainee class 216 @ Participated in two European and one South American tour. Responsible for the codification of secret communication between our ship and our central command. Provided maintenance and support to all computer software and storage. Was SAR (Search and Rescue) swimmer onboard the USS Whidbey Island (LSD 44). Was accepted to BUDS class 216 (SEAL Training). Received a Good Conduct Medal and an honorable discharge. From 1994 to 1998 (4 years)

Christian Sanz is skilled in: JavaScript, JavaScript Databases, JavaScript Frameworks, SQL, Mongodb, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python, .NET/C#, Java, Perl, MongoDB, Web Applications, Agile Methodologies