Enterprise Thinking.
Independent Execution.
18 years of Fortune 500 engineering, now building in the open from the Colorado Rockies.
From Fortune 500 to the Rockies
Applied AI and platform engineering in regulated industries. 18 years building production systems across fintech and manufacturing.
Chris Cowart
Founder & Principal Architect
I spent 18 years as the glue between business operations and engineering teams at places like Mastercard and Jabil — architecting global systems, building data pipelines, and leading the kind of cross-functional work that keeps large-scale platforms running.
When my family moved to 35 acres in Huerfano County, I started Walsenburg Tech as an experiment: could I build enterprise-grade infrastructure on bare metal, run agentic AI systems at scale, and do it all without the corporate overhead? The answer was yes.
Now I build in the open — sovereign stacks on Hetzner, KYB verification engines processing thousands of companies a day, fraud detection models, and the infrastructure that ties it all together. The code is public. The blog shows the real work.
"I build the systems I write about, and I write about the systems I build. Enterprise patterns at startup speed, with the code to prove it."
Work with me.
Currently available for staff engineering roles and consulting engagements. Mostly interested in production AI and platform work in regulated industries.
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