Christian Smith

I build production AI systems, publish them where anyone can inspect them, and demonstrate them to the people who have to trust them. My color-computation server is published to the official Model Context Protocol registry and listed in awesome-mcp-servers; AIII, my agent identity and authorization reference implementation, ships Sigstore-signed releases, a CycloneDX SBOM, and an OpenSSF Best Practices Baseline submission at 20 of 21 controls with the exception documented rather than hidden. Quality is gated on published thresholds enforced in CI, not on assurances. Four years customer-facing at the technical end: live AR/XR demonstration and tier-1/tier-2 escalation at Meta, enterprise help desk and productivity consulting before that. Nine shipped projects and 5,000+ tests across the portfolio, every project under CI with its quality gates published rather than asserted. Targeting Solutions Engineer, Solutions Architect, and Sales Engineer roles at AI and developer-tools companies.

• AIII: Artificial Intelligence Identification Initiative · rnvizion.dev/aiii — Apache-2.0 reference implementation for AI agent identity: an L1–L3 identity-and-authorization layer for MCP servers, built on one principle: resolve or refuse, never guess. Holder-of-key verification (RFC 7800/7638), declarative per-tool authorization, 46 tests with property-based eval gates, and cross-platform CI with lint and SAST. Supply chain: DCO enforced in CI, Sigstore-signed release manifests, a CycloneDX SBOM per release, and an OpenSSF Best Practices Baseline submission at 20 of 21 controls, with the one exception documented rather than hidden. Source at github.com/RNVizion/rnv-mcp-identity, with a live demo on Hugging Face Spaces.
• rnv-color-mcp · github.com/RNVizion/rnv-color-mcp — Color-computation server on the Model Context Protocol (FastMCP), published to the official MCP registry and listed in awesome-mcp-servers. Ten deterministic tools spanning color conversion, harmony generation, mixing, palette management, WCAG contrast (AA/AAA), and perceptual difference (CIEDE2000). Also an OAuth 2.1 resource server: RFC 9728 protected-resource metadata and enforced per-tool scopes over a read and write split, covered by tests green in CI. One shared engine, callable by any LLM client: the model decides intent, the tool owns the exact value. MIT licensed, live on Hugging Face Spaces.
• Ask the Corpus · huggingface.co/spaces/RNVizion/ask-the-corpus — Live retrieval-augmented (RAG) assistant answering questions over my published writing: sentence-transformers embeddings and ChromaDB vector search, grounded through Claude with source citations, plus rate limiting and per-call cost guardrails. Quality is CI-gated: a 60-case evaluation suite covering retrieval, out-of-corpus refusal, and false refusal, including deliberate traps, runs on every change to the app, the ingestion path, or the corpus, and fails the build if any of four thresholds regresses: retrieval accuracy at or above 85%, out-of-corpus refusal at or above 90%, false-refusal rate at or below 10%, and public-claim accuracy at 100%. Gradio UI, deployed live on Hugging Face Spaces.
• RNV Publishing Agent · github.com/RNVizion/rnv-publishing-agent — FastMCP server exposing six tools, orchestrated by a Claude agent loop that publishes to a live site: validate the post, commit and push, poll until the URL returns 200, then update the retrieval corpus. The model makes one decision — publish or don’t — and deterministic code executes the chain, stopping at the first failure. The orchestration is code, not a prompt, and the dry run is the default. Refusal behavior is pinned by a test suite; a self-contained demo runs the real chain against throwaway git repositories with no credentials or network, and CI runs both on every push. Recorded walkthrough at rnvizion.dev/demos/rnv-publishing-agent.

• Engineering essay series · rnvizion.dev/blog — Ongoing series on building with intention in the AI era, each post turning real production work into developer-facing writing. Self-published on a site I build and deploy via GitHub Pages, syndicated to dev.to over RSS; the same writing is the corpus behind Ask the Corpus.
• RNV Text Transformer · github.com/RNVizion/rnv-text-transformer — 11 transformation modes, 9+ file formats, regex builder, folder watching, full CLI. CI on Linux + Windows.
• RNV Color Palette Manager · github.com/RNVizion/rnv-color-palette-manager — Professional palette management with 16+ export formats, 7 mixing algorithms, and WCAG accessibility tools.
• RNV Color Picker · github.com/RNVizion/rnv-color-picker — Screen color extraction with magnifier, WCAG contrast checker, and color harmony generation.
• RNV Icon Builder · github.com/RNVizion/rnv-icon-builder — Multi-resolution ICO creation from PNG, SVG, and ICO sources with platform-specific exports for Android, iOS, and favicons.
• RNV Color Mixer · github.com/RNVizion/rnv-color-mixer — Real-world paint mixing simulation using Kubelka-Munk theory in a digital palette.

Google IT Support Professional Certificate — including System Administration and IT Infrastructure Services, IT Security, Operating Systems, Technical Support Fundamentals, and Computer Networking.

Google Cybersecurity coursework — Foundations of Cybersecurity · Connect and Protect: Networks and Network Security · Play It Safe: Manage Security Risks.

IBM — Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals.