Chris Cordaro

Full-stack AI Engineer

I build production AI — autonomous agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, and full-stack GenAI platforms — from schema to ship.

Chris Cordaro
10+
Years Building
3
Production AI SaaS
14
Agent Personas
$300M+
Federal Funding Coordinated
Chris Cordaro

Engineer, founder, operator.

I’m a full-stack AI engineer, program manager, and technical founder with 10+ years building enterprise data systems, generative-AI platforms, and autonomous agentic workflows for federal and defense clients.

As the sole architect of three production SaaS products, I’ve designed multi-agent orchestration systems with autonomous task planning, tool-use coordination, and persistent memory for long-running federal workflows — and shipped them end-to-end, from database schema to deployment.

That engineering depth is paired with hands-on program management of teams up to 16, coordination of $300M+ in federal funding, and deep domain expertise across FAR/DFARS, FedRAMP, CMMC, and the Shipley methodology.

  • Autonomous multi-agent systems & orchestration
  • RAG pipelines and hybrid retrieval
  • Full-stack GenAI products, schema to ship
  • Federal & defense domain (FAR/DFARS, FedRAMP, CMMC)

Production AI, shipped.

Platforms I designed and built end-to-end — autonomous agents, retrieval systems, and full-stack products serving federal and enterprise users.

Full-stack opportunity intelligence

Federal Solicitation-Monitoring SaaS

A from-scratch SaaS that aggregates federal opportunities from multiple sources, scores them with an AI composite model, and deduplicates across four levels of source overlap.

PythonFastAPIPostgreSQLpgvectorDockerCloudflare Zero Trust

AI-powered composite scoring over a continuously refreshed opportunity pipeline.

Retrieval-augmented synthesis

RAG Copilot

A conversational copilot with intent classification and hybrid retrieval (full-text search + vector embeddings) that streams context-enriched LLM responses.

RAGHybrid RetrievalVector EmbeddingsStreaming LLMpgvector

Context-grounded answers across 50K+ federal solicitations.

Autonomous 4-phase pipeline

Multi-Agent Competitive Intelligence

A multi-agent workflow with role-specialized agents (research, analysis, synthesis, review) and real-time SSE progress, integrating government data APIs.

Multi-AgentSSESAM.govUSASpendingFPDSSBA

End-to-end competitive reports generated by coordinated autonomous agents.

Command + build crews

14-Persona Agent Orchestration

A cognitive-architecture system of 14 autonomous agent personas — a 4-member command team and 10-member build crew — with persistent memory and cross-agent coordination protocols for parallel execution.

Agent PersonasPersistent MemoryOrchestrationTool Use

Parallel task execution across a coordinated agent organization.

Interoperable agent skills

10 Cross-Platform AI Agent Products

Production AI agent products packaged as LLM skills, MCP servers, and plugins — installable with zero runtime dependencies across Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and ChatGPT CLI.

MCPLLM SkillsPluginsClaude CodeGemini CLI

A standardized, portable model for agent interoperability.

Public oversight dashboards

UkraineOversight.gov

Public-facing interactive Tableau dashboards for oversight of federal Ukraine-related funding, designed and delivered end-to-end for the DoD Inspector General.

TableauData EngineeringPublic SectorBI

Recognized by CNN, C-SPAN, and Congress; Glenn/Roth Award for Exemplary Service.

Schema to checkout

E-Commerce AI Product Catalog

A cross-platform AI product catalog built end-to-end — from database schema to Stripe checkout and a 5-email nurture sequence with lead-magnet automation.

Next.jsTypeScriptStripeVercelReact Email

A complete commerce funnel with automated lead nurturing.

A decade of building.

From founding AI products to leading federal modernization programs and teams of 16.

Founder & Technical Lead

Stratavex

Oct 2025 – Present Raleigh, NC

Sole architect, engineer, and operator of three production AI platforms for the government-contracting market.

  • Built a full-stack solicitation-monitoring SaaS from scratch — Python/FastAPI, PostgreSQL + pgvector, Docker, Cloudflare Zero Trust — with AI composite scoring, 4-level source dedup, and multi-source opportunity aggregation.
  • Shipped a RAG copilot with intent classification, hybrid retrieval (full-text + vector), and streaming LLM synthesis across 50K+ federal solicitations.
  • Architected a multi-agent competitive-intelligence pipeline: a 4-phase autonomous workflow with role-specialized agents and live SSE progress, integrating SAM.gov, USASpending, FPDS, and SBA.
  • Designed 14 autonomous agent personas (a 4-member command team + 10-member build crew) with persistent memory and cross-agent coordination protocols.

Senior Associate — Program Manager

Knowesis Inc.

Oct 2025 – Present Raleigh, NC

Leads a 16-person team on the Health Readiness Policy & Oversight contract across the Military Health System.

  • Spearheaded the MEDLOG pharmaceutical supply-chain illumination initiative — a dual-track AI-augmented evaluation framework — and authored executive communications recommending an OTA-funded pilot to ASD(HA).
  • Replaced a manual monthly burn-reporting process with a Python pipeline producing 15 status reports, labor-hour variance workbooks, and AI-assisted run-out projections from one accounting input.
  • Leads capture planning and Shipley-method proposal development: L/M/C/H analysis, color-team reviews, and compliance-matrix mapping for DoD and civilian pursuits.

Enterprise Business Innovation Manager

Department of Defense, Office of Inspector General

Aug 2024 – Sep 2025 Alexandria, VA

Led agency-wide, data-driven transformation, aligning analytics strategy with mission priorities and securing senior-leadership buy-in.

  • Directed AI and predictive-analytics solutions for workforce planning — cutting time-to-hire by 10% and manual analysis time by 60%.
  • Ran an Agile delivery program with Requirements Traceability Matrices linking technical deliverables to mission outcomes.
  • Drove change management that moved teams from manual reporting to self-service analytics.

Program Manager / Technical Lead

Knowesis Inc. — DoD Inspector General

Sep 2019 – Aug 2024 Alexandria, VA

Directed a 15+ person team of data scientists, engineers, and BI analysts delivering enterprise analytics and modernization for the DoD IG.

  • Led design and development of UkraineOversight.gov — public interactive Tableau dashboards recognized by CNN, C-SPAN, and Congress.
  • Won the Glenn/Roth Award for Exemplary Service; achieved 98% on-time delivery across all deliverables.
  • Drove a modern-data-stack migration over 40+ sprints (35% cost/scalability gain) and built a self-service platform for 400+ users.
  • Founded a Data Science Center of Excellence for methodology, governance, and mentorship.

Solution Architect / Technical Lead

Knowesis Inc. — FEMA / Defense Health Agency

Feb 2018 – Aug 2019 Washington, DC

Architected cross-platform federal systems on AWS during active disaster events and enterprise records modernization.

  • Delivered a cross-platform disaster-recovery system (iOS, Android, web) on AWS with Power BI, GIS, and REST APIs across 6 rapid sprints — primary technical contact under 4-hour response SLAs.
  • Built an enterprise records-management system with automated content classification, NLP, and BI dashboards — cutting manual workload 45% with 94% on-time delivery.

Data Manager

Atkins (SNC-Lavalin) — FEMA

Sep 2013 – Feb 2018 Columbia, SC

Built enterprise data solutions supporting FEMA funding coordination across $300M+ and 22 counties.

  • Implemented data validation and analytics frameworks achieving a 0.05% error rate.

Technical stack.

AI & GenAI

LLM architecture designMulti-agent orchestrationAutonomous agentic workflowsRAG pipelinesHybrid retrievalPrompt engineeringClaude APIGemini APIMCP / Model Context ProtocolLangChain / LangGraphAgent persona designPersistent memory systems

Languages & Frameworks

PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptSQLReactNext.jsFastAPINode.jsRVBA

Machine Learning

TensorFlowscikit-learnXGBoostBERTLSTMNLPPredictive analyticsML lifecycle

Cloud & Infrastructure

DockerKubernetesVercelCloudflare (Tunnel, Zero Trust, Workers, R2)AWS (S3, Lambda)AzureGCP

Databases

PostgreSQLpgvectorSQLAlchemyDrizzle ORMNeon ServerlessAlembicSQL ServerOracle EBS

Frontend

HTMXAlpine.jsTailwind CSSJinja2shadcn/uiMDXReact EmailMulti-theme systems

DevOps & Testing

GitGitHub ActionspytestVitestRuffmypySemgrepCI/CD

BI & Analytics

Tableau (Cloud + Desktop)Power BIQlikView

Federal Domain

FAR / DFARSFedRAMPCMMCSAM.govShipley methodologyColor-team reviewsCompliance matricesNAICS / PSC

Certifications

  • PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) — 2022
  • Tableau Certified Associate — 2019
  • Data Science Professional Certificate, HarvardX — 2021
  • DataWalk Technical Professional — 2022

Let’s build something.

Open to AI engineering roles. The fastest way to reach me is email — or grab the résumé.