Chris is a Navy Veteran, engineer, entrepreneur, and team leader with a strong business background, and over 25 years of experience in software, hardware, and technical leadership.
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Ceo, FounderSkycatch Feb 2013 - PresentSan Francisco, Ca, UsSkycatch is the leading industrial aerial data collection and analytics company, focused on indexing and extracting critical information from the physical world. We use a combination of hardware, software, and artificial intelligence to deliver high precision data at unprecedented speed and ease of use. Built for enterprise, our turnkey solutions are deployed across global project sites with the world’s largest construction, mining, and energy companies. -
MentorCode2040 Jan 2013 - Dec 2013San Francisco, Ca, Us -
Founder, DeveloperDronegames Aug 2011 - Dec 2013San Francisco, California, UsLargest drone automation competition/hackathon. Before drones were cool. I contributed to the simulator code and started/organized all events. http://dronegames.coStarted as a hackathon http://nodecopter.comhttps://techcrunch.com/2012/12/03/a-discussion-about-amazing-innovation-with-christian-sanz-creator-of-dronegames-tctv/ -
Founding Cto (Acquired By Adobe)Storify.Com Apr 2010 - Aug 2011San Francisco, Ca, UsJoined very early on to help build the technical team, help scale the system and then moved on to start dronegames and then Skycatch -
Cto & Vp Of EngKin Community Jul 2008 - Jan 2011Los Angeles, California, Us(Formerly DECA) Before pivoting to Kin Community, we gave birth to Smosh.com and many others as DECA. Raised over $20M in funding and helped grow the audience to millions of unique visitors a day. -
Senior Director Of Engineering (Acquired By Lionsgate)Break Media Aug 2007 - Aug 2008More growth, bigger teams, larger scale deployment. Very successful and fun place before the merger with Defy
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Director Of EngineeingBreak Media Apr 2006 - Aug 2007More growth, more hiring. Expanded our technology to other verticals, expanded our sales teams, company started to generate big revenues
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Lead Engineer / Engineer Number OneBreak.Com Aug 2005 - Apr 2006Gave birth to Break.com (Merged with Break Media). Largest independently own viral video platform in the world. I coded the first video transcoding software and designed the first database and many other fun things alongside an incredible engineering team. Helped grow the audience to 2M unique daily visitors
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Senior Software Engineer (Acquired By Costar For $860M)Loopnet Aug 2004 - Jul 2005Washington, District Of Columbia, UsFastest growing commercial real state search engine. Contributed to converting the old legacy search software to C# from COM+/Visual Basic. Helped scale their subscription products to 100x in revenue -
Software EngineerThe Walt Disney Company Jan 2000 - Aug 2004Burbank, Ca, UsAs a member of Disney's online subscription engineering team, I was responsible for building technology for scaling and managing over 50M unique visitors daily across all Disney properties (ABC, Family, ESPN, Disney.com, Disney Parks, Disney Stores). The technology stack included Java, Oracle, and Custom C++ Proxy Servers.I also helped give birth to the first online multiplayer game named Toontown as part of the Walt Disney Imagineering group. That was my first exposure to 3D engines and custom in-memory databases -
EngineerInfoseek Nov 1999 - Jun 2000Sunnyvale, California, UsJoined Go.com (powered by Infoseek) which was then Acquired by Disney -
Database EngineerBelkin International Dec 1998 - Nov 1999El Segundo, Ca, UsTurned hundreds of access databases into flat files, then normalized them into a new MSQL database. Some pearl + CGI and then launched Belkin's first e-commerce website -
Yeoman, Data Processor & Navy Seal Trainee Class 216Us Navy 1994 - 1998Washington, Dc, UsParticipated 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 41). Was accepted to BUDS class 216 (SEAL Training). Received a Good Conduct Medal and an honorable discharge.
Christian Sanz Education Details
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Us NavyInformation Technology
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