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Chris Minge

Chris Minge

CTO & Co‑Founder, Vulcan Technologies — ex‑Google CoreML

Austin, Texas
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Joined October 2025
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Built production ML infrastructure at Google: Chris worked on CoreML / ML infra at Google, gaining experience scaling model serving and ML systems used by large products (reportedly supporting Gemini, Waymo, Vertex AI). This experience is the technical foundation he brings to building Vulcan’s agentic legal‑cartography platform. googlesource+1
Co‑founder and technical lead of a fast‑moving govtech startup: As Co‑Founder & CTO of Vulcan Technologies (YC S25), Chris helped build an AI system that maps laws and regulations and has been deployed in government contexts (notably Virginia), positioning the company to replace slow consultancy workflows with automated regulatory analysis. vulcan-tech+2
Interdisciplinary background combining CS and philosophy: Chris studied computer science (B.S.E.) at Princeton while engaging in philosophy and blockchain research; this combination shows both technical depth in systems/ML and interest in normative questions — a useful mix for building tools that interact with law and policy. philpeople+1
Early-stage operator with accelerator and investor traction: Vulcan graduated in Y Combinator’s Summer 2025 batch and quickly attracted seed investment and press coverage; Chris’s role as CTO/co‑founder indicates hands‑on product and engineering leadership through fundraising and early government deployments. ycombinator+2

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Philosophy (interests include philosophy of consciousness, meta‑ethics, Kierkegaard) philpeople