Chris France

40 years building technology. Now building with AI.

Operations Manager, Digital Practice & Technology · AECOM

What I've Built
Query-Driven Memory
Persistent AI memory with vector similarity retrieval. Memories reinforce with use, decay over time, and resurface automatically when relevant.
React · FastAPI · Qdrant · Ollama
Model Security Scanner
Automated LLM vulnerability testing across 10 attack categories — prompt injection, jailbreaking, data extraction. Scans local and cloud models.
React · FastAPI · Ollama · Claude API
Local RAG System
Private document-grounded chat. Upload documents, ask questions, get sourced answers. Fully local — no API keys, no cloud dependencies.
Docker · Qdrant · Ollama · Open WebUI
AI Inference Cost Calculator
Total cost of ownership for GPU builds vs cloud inference. Break-even analysis across 6 hardware tiers over 36 months.
React · FastAPI · Recharts
Datacenter Demand Simulator
Monte Carlo capacity forecasting across compute, storage, power, and cooling. AI-powered scenario analysis with decision timelines.
React · FastAPI · Ollama · Recharts
DC Optimization & Valuation
Datacenter investment analysis for PE/VC. Financial modeling, M&A valuation, and deal memos across 14 global markets.
React · FastAPI · Recharts
AssetPulse
Transit asset management platform built on public MBTA data. FTA condition scoring, capital planning, and state-of-good-repair analysis across 200+ assets.
React · FastAPI · SQLite · Recharts
CIO in the AI World
12-lecture executive education course. Strategy frameworks, live demos, and implementation playbooks for enterprise AI adoption.
React · FastAPI · HTML5 Slides
Enterprise Production Platform
Full-stack model health scoring with 31 automated metrics, 209 passing tests, C# cloud extraction pipeline, and 15 dashboard pages.
React · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · C# · Autodesk APS
CIO Course Demos
The AI Inflection Point
Data analysis from a single sentence. Describe what you want and Claude Code finds the data, writes the code, and produces a professional chart.
Claude Code · CSV · Recharts
LLMs Demystified
See the tradeoff between small and large language models. Compare speed, quality, memory, and cost side by side on your own machine.
Claude Code · Ollama
Finding Your $250K Moment
An AI-built cost calculator that finds $250K in cloud spending waste. The tool itself was built by Claude Code — AI building the tools that find the savings.
Claude Code · Inference Cost Calculator
Legacy Code is Not a Dead End
Convert a 1985 COBOL accounting system to modern Python with type hints, unit tests, and a REST API — in minutes, not months.
Claude Code · COBOL · Python · FastAPI
The Shadow IT Time Bomb
Audit a complex financial spreadsheet and discover hidden risks. Finds circular references, hardcoded values, stale assumptions, and formula complexity.
Claude Code · Excel · Risk Analysis
The Death of Offshore Arbitrage
A typical 2-hour developer sprint ticket completed in 90 seconds for ~$0.15. Feature implementation, validation, and tests — all automatically.
Claude Code · Full-Stack Development
Renegotiating Your SaaS Stack
Build a SaaS audit dashboard from a CSV. Per-user costs, overpriced tools, duplicate detection, open-source alternatives, and total savings — one command.
Claude Code · CSV · Dashboard
In December 2025, I started an experiment. I'd spent 40 years leading technology organizations — managing teams, budgets, and enterprise infrastructure. I understood deeply what needed to be built. But I'd never been the one writing the code.
Claude Code changed that equation. In 10 weeks, I built everything on this page. Not by writing code full-time — by directing Claude in focused sessions between meetings, conference calls, and life. I'd describe what I needed, kick off a build, and come back to working software. The traditional estimate for this scope: 2–3 specialists, 17 months, $250,000+.
10 wks
Calendar time
vs 17 months traditional
~$500
Tool cost
vs $250K+ traditional
1
Person
vs 2–3 specialists
43,640
Lines of code
7 languages · 12 apps
Claude Code doesn't replace developers. It eliminates the translation layer between "the person who knows what needs to be built" and "the person who knows how to build it." When those are the same person — augmented by AI — the result is transformative.
Every project on this page was built with Claude Code (Anthropic).