ChristopherLyon.

I build across the stack, electrons, atoms, and bits, and I operate at the level above all three. By day I lead strategic technology development at one of the world's largest robotics companies, deciding which bets a hardware program lives or dies by on a five to ten year horizon. By every other hour I design circuits, machine parts, ship code, and write the studies that live on this site.

The pattern is unusual on purpose. Most engineers go deep on one discipline and hand off at the boundary. Most strategists never touch the work. I do both because frontier programs, robotics, space systems, offshore, defense-adjacent hardware, fail at the seams between disciplines, and the people who can hold the whole system in their head are the ones who get them across the line. Electrical, mechanical, software, open source, operations, commercial. One head. Same week.

That breadth is paired with shipping. The portfolio here is the proof. Research with citations, business cases with numbers, prototypes that actually run, open-source contributions you can clone tonight. No buzzword soup. No vaporware. Concrete work, published in full, free of charge, because the credibility I care about is the kind a peer can verify in an afternoon.

If you are a recruiter, principal, or operator scoping someone for a frontier program, robotics, autonomy, space, dual-use, zero-to-one hardware, and you need a generalist who can engineer the system and defend the bet to a board, that is the wheelhouse. The fastest path is email.