Cris Santiago

Writing and research

Ideas about systems,
delivery, and practical AI.

Notes from building, leading, and learning: AI safety, product strategy, finance, and the realities of delivering technology.

Medium articles

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Careers + AI

Your Personal Project Can Stand on Its Own Two Feet

Why free tools and a real side project prove more about an engineer than credentials do in an AI-shaped job market.

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Enterprise AI

Your Analysts Shouldn’t Need a Tech Degree to Troubleshoot Apptio

Turning IBM documentation into symptom-first skills that route analysts to a cited answer instead of a feature manual.

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AI + Finance

How AI Can Help Bridge the Gap Between Tech and Finance

Using evidence-based classification to turn technical intent into a shared language for finance and product teams.

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AI Security

How Are You Protecting Your AI Agents From Prompt Injection?

Why indirect prompt injection matters and how layered detection can screen untrusted content before it reaches an agent.

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Local AI

OpenClaw Docker Sandbox

Isolating agent execution inside a Docker Sandbox microVM while keeping the terminal experience and Ollama on the host.

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Product Strategy

Is Your MVP Failing, or Just Off-Track?

Reframing MVPs as learning systems with evidence-based governance, clear hypotheses, and disciplined scope.

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Agile Delivery

Progress Isn’t Linear. Here’s How I Show It

Using burn-up charts to show delivery and changing scope in one honest view, improving decisions when the finish line moves.

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Conference paper

Research
Technical paper

University of Central Florida

Flairrcoin: Implementing the Next Generation of Blockchain Into Modern Applications

Cristino R. Santiago · Erick Peña · Daniel Morales

The project paper covering the architecture and implementation of Flairrcoin as a feeless cryptocurrency for modern application experiences.

Open paper Project archive