Christian Gutierrez is a Vice President of Hivemind Engineering at Shield AI, leading the expansion and integration of Shield AI’s Hivemind AI Pilot onto a variety of platforms. Christian served 20 years of honorable service in the U.S. Air Force working on the F-117A and F-16 as an Avionics Specialist and deployed to Iraq in 2005. He transitioned into Command and Control, serving in NORAD‘s Alert Mission and directly supported several hurricane contingency efforts along the Gulf Coast. After retiring from the Air Force, Christian spent over ten years at Lockheed Martin as a flight software and guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) engineer for UAVs, spacecraft, and hypersonic missiles, advancing to lead a $500M project and a 275-person team. He holds a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Houston.