Chris Grime
AI Engineer
Whittier, California
chris@chrisgrime.comchrisgrime.comSummary
Built production AI systems at RAVE Aerospace: an LLM-powered flight diagnostics platform, agentic log analysis pipeline, and MCP servers processing millions of log messages across 1,000+ aircraft tails. Full-stack engineer with four years in Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript on Azure, an M.S. in Computer Science from Cal State Fullerton, and M.S. research in LSTM aerospace forecasting.
Experience
Software Engineer, Tools Engineering
RAVE Aerospace - Brea, California
Built a full-stack flight analytics platform in Vue.js and Python/Quart backed by Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse, serving 1,000+ aircraft tails with a flights table, log viewer, seat map, and source code browser
Built the IFEC log ingestion pipeline: parses bundle offloads from 1,000+ aircraft into a Fabric Lakehouse using Drain template matching, then uses an LLM to annotate each log template to the source code line that printed it
Built an agentic diagnostics layer where Claude traverses the source code graph, places each log in context, and determines what it means and why it was printed, replacing what field engineers used to do by hand across multiple manual bundle unzips
Built an MCP knowledge base that unifies Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and SharePoint into a single interface, letting LLMs answer questions that previously required searching four separate systems
Built a flight analytics MCP server giving software engineers, field engineers, and support staff natural language access to flight data and IFEC source code through Claude or GitHub Copilot
Cut BIT Events tab load from 38s to 1.1s (97%) and flights list from 11s to 1.1s (90%) with targeted query optimization and a 30-minute cache layer
Containerized and deployed the platform with Docker on Azure Container Apps, using Bicep IaC for infrastructure as code
Built a RAG pipeline over master data, product information, and company docs using Azure OpenAI and Azure embeddings for natural language search across operational data
Software Engineer, Business Process Development
RAVE Aerospace - Brea, California
Built a master data system to replace spreadsheet-based operations across sales ops, programs, and product data, serving as the single source of truth across the org
Architected the frontend, backend, and REST API for a Repairs Management portal in Vue.js and TypeScript, moving customer service from email into a structured workflow, defined design guidelines for the app suite, and established the API-first architecture reused across three internal apps
Migrated the Analytics Portal from Angular to Vue.js, replaced static reports with embedded Power BI dashboards, and updated the underlying semantic data model
Board Member & Technology Lead
Newport Elementary School Foundation - Newport Beach, California
Redesigned the foundation's website and managed all technology infrastructure as the only technical person on staff
Education
California State University, Fullerton
Master of Science, Computer Science
Master's Project: LSTM network for aerospace inventory demand forecasting: 94.5% precision on erratic demand patterns, beating traditional statistical methods. ETL pipeline from PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and OData APIs with 140+ engineered temporal features. github.com/grimechristopher/CSUF-Masters-Project-Public
University of La Verne
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Computer Engineering
Concentration: Internet Programming · Graduated with Departmental Honors · 2020 Academic Excellence Award
Published: Grime, C., & Goetz, J. (2023). Course and Faculty Management System. International Journal on Engineering, Science and Technology, 5(2), 138–160. doi.org/10.46328/ijonest.163