Chris Waterson

Chris Waterson has spent three decades working toward a single goal: building systems that can reason, plan, and act on their own. He started chasing that vision in the ‘90s, long before the tools to realize it existed. Since then, he's helped build many of those tools himself, contributing to foundational embedding research and deep learning ranking models at Google, and later leading the team behind DevMate, Meta's internal agentic coding framework. That work convinced him that building agents is no longer the hard part – managing them reliably in production is. It's why he co-founded Guild.ai, the control plane for AI agents, giving engineering teams the access controls, observability, versioning, and sharing infrastructure needed to run agents at scale with confidence.