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Chris Stanley

San Francisco, CA · (310) 405-4043 · stanleychris2@gmail.com · chrisstanley.xyz

Technical operator and founder with 15 years building intelligent data systems and AI products that automate and augment decision-making. I ship end-to-end across code, design, GTM, and leadership. Focused on driving AI adoption and measurable business impact in the enterprise.

Skills

  • Executive leadership: fundraising, planning, investor comms; OKRs, KPI cadence, reporting
  • Systems architecture: automate manual ops into reliable, auditable workflows for finance, risk, sales
  • Product management: customer discovery, business case validation, iterative roadmap
  • Full-stack builder: Python, TypeScript/Node.js, SQL; data pipelines (Airflow, dbt, Snowflake/BigQuery)
  • Analytics & BI: self-serve dashboards and automated reporting that drive decisions
  • Applied ML: problem framing, model development/evaluation, safe deployment
  • LLM/agents: agentic workflows, retrieval, evals, prompt design, custom tools/integrations
  • Risk & compliance: SOC 2, GDPR; data security, privacy, governance

Experience

Patterns

Founder

2021 - Present · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Raised $6M and built a low-code AI data automation and insights platform for revenue & finance teams; led a 6-engineer team end-to-end (architecture, UX, delivery).
  • Shipped an agentic data/LLM platform: connectors, python/SQL DAG orchestration infrastructure and low-code UI, text-to-SQL agents, LLM powered data reconciliation agents, and solo-dev on most recent finance/research agent for investment banking and PE (web research, Jupyter/Python, Excel, powerpoint, and database querying).
  • Launched the first agent builder on HackerNews (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33801314) the day ChatGPT released; iterated with enterprise design partners.
  • Owned product, GTM and sales; generated $500k+ lifetime revenue with customers including Crunchbase.

Scope

Founder

2018 - 2020 · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Raised $3M to build a professional services marketplace that helped SaaS companies (e.g., Plaid, Square, Shippo) accelerate time-to-value, retention, and ROI.
  • Led a 5-engineer team; built automated requirement intake, scoping, quoting, and expert matching workflows.
  • Scoped, quoted, and managed 50+ projects; delivered $400k+ GMV; sold to C-level executives.

Cover

Business Operations Lead

2016 - 2018 · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Engineered a modern ELT stack (Fivetran, Snowflake, dbt) and Periscope BI; created 30+ data models and 100+ curated KPI views for Product, Sales, and Growth.
  • Automated financial reporting and forecasting (P&L, cash flow, LTV) and built executive dashboards and cadences.
  • Shipped an ML lead-scoring service (Python/Scikit-learn) that reduced CAC by 18%.
  • Supported a $16M fundraise (Tribe Capital, Social Capital, YC) by building the deck, data room, and an automated financial-model pipeline with live metrics; primary diligence contact.

Square

Business Operations, Risk

2014 - 2018 · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Scaled risk operations post-IPO; implemented Airflow pipelines and Tableau reporting to power real-time risk metrics and agent scorecards across a 100+ person merchant review team.
  • Investigated fraud patterns and modeled credit risk to generate machine learning predictive signals/features for transaction risk scoring and fraud detection.
  • Led company-wide Plaid integration enabling automated bank account review; partnered with Square Capital to enhance underwriting.
  • Built a chargeback predictive model to prioritize chargeback dispute management, saving $850k+/year in operating costs.

FurnishUp

Founder

Jul 2014 - Jan 2016 · Greater New York City Area

  • Founded FurnishUp, an online platform for visualizing and arranging furniture in a virtual 3D space to enhance customer engagement and simplify purchase decisions.
  • Open-sourced the core technology as Blueprint3D.

Nomura

Fixed Income Analyst

Jul 2011 - Jul 2014 · New York, NY

  • As a Fixed Income Sales Associate, I advised hedge funds, asset managers, and banks on investment strategies across a range of fixed-income products.
  • My product expertise included financial derivatives, futures, options, interest rate swaps, and government bonds in both US and European markets.

Education

Yale University

B.A., Economics and Psychology

2007 - 2011 · New Haven, CT

Coursework: Statistics, Psychology, Game Theory

  • Notable papers:
  • A Risky Paradigm: An Evaluation of Risk and Decision-Making in American Society
  • Technology and Financial Market Evolution
  • Economics, Psychology, and Theory: An Analysis of the Historical Relationship Between Economics and Psychology
  • Berkeley College (Residential College); Varsity Football (Cornerback); Varsity Track & Field (100m, 200m, 4x100, 4x400); DMR school record holder

Loyola High School, Los Angeles

High School Diploma

2003 - 2007 · Los Angeles, CA