Christopher K. Monson, PhD

Created AI-specific product and corporate security programs from the ground up.

• Policy expert in charge of setting direction and writing education materials for acceptable corporate AI tool use, internal/external MCP and connectors.

• AI identity and permissions expert enabling launch of assignable agents in Jira.

• Standards expert in charge of maturity metrics and development lifecycle AI security policy, as well as preparation for ISO 42001.

• AI tooling and governance leader responsible for enabling prioritization of AI applications to Trust org needs.

• AI testing and maintenance oversight, enabling consistent compliance, security, and privacy visibility and action.

Progressed through multiple engineering and management roles across Ads, Reality Labs, and Privacy (layoffs and reorgs created more than usual churn)

• Mar 2024-Nov 2024: Engineering Manager in Ads Experiments/AB Test. Team of 7, responsible for A/B testing infrastructure.

• Jun 2023-Mar 2024: Senior ML Engineer in Ads Experiments/AB Test. Revamped A/B testing on-call, making it truly 24/7 multi-regional

• Aug 2022-Jun 2023: Engineering Manager in Reality Labs (AR Glasses). Team of 6, delivered multiple application prototypes for AR glasses.

• Apr 2021-Jul 2022: Senior Engineering Tech Lead in Privacy, Data Misuse Prevention. Owner of massive, sensitive privacy logs, bot detection infra, and rate limiting infra used to thwart data exfiltration attempts.

Created and taught Cloud Computing Security course.

Chief Technology Officer leading multiple DARPA and DoD programs.

• Primary Investigator and Chief Architect for DARPA MediFor (Media Forensics). Built image detection pipeline infrastructure, led team building UX, led academic teams in technology implementation.

• Primary Investigator and Chief Architect for DARPA LogX (Next Generation Logistics). Built fault-tolerant logistics microservice architecture from the ground up, CI/CD frameworks for academic institutions to integrate with, led design.

• Chief Architect for NXGBCC (US Army Next-Generation Biometrics Collection and Search). Built backend data schema and search, biometrics collection and search hardware integrations, and mobile UX.

• CTO responsibilities across all other contracts.

Senior software engineering and tech lead roles across multiple product areas.

• Area 120 Project: Chief Architect for TTS and speech recognition system (Aug 2017-Mar 2018).

• Machine Learning for Hiring and People Operations Tech Lead (Mar 2015-Aug 2017).

• Elections Search Results and Civic Now Cards (Mar 2014-Jan 2015).

• Python and Go readability reviewer and instructor. ML instructor.

Short fixed-term research contract: XData project Go Circuit

Technical expert support in software patent litigation.

• Technical expert report and rebuttal drafting, patent non-infringement and invalidity.

• Prior art research, code review, and evidence collection.

• Markmonitor report on BitTorrent detection, fact deposition and testimony.

Exa-scale machine learning and infrastructure across ads, maps, and search quality.

• Machine learning and SRE for malware detection, ads click prediction.

• AdSense for Search Tech Lead (team of 8) - made Top 10 list; AdSense for Content Predictions.

• Regional Maps Data Tech Lead at Zurich office.

• Search Quality Projects - Executive Management Group award.

• Primary author of original gears-based YouTube uploader.

Statistical machine translation - Operating Committee award, precursor to Translate.

Various roles across companies and educational institutions. Info on request

• Adjunct faculty at UVSC (now UVU)

• Chief Architect and CTO

• Cryptographic Software Engineer