About

Chris Sharp is a systems architect based in Nashville, Tennessee. He has worked at IBM for 12 years as a full-stack developer across enterprise networking and blockchain platforms. He inherited a 700,000-line product with no tests and no documentation, built the test framework and API spec from scratch, and wrote a fix in a weekend that senior developers estimated would take two years. It's still running unmodified a decade later.

He earned a B.S. in Computer Science from East Tennessee State University at age 38, with a 3.87 GPA, while raising two children. He completed Andrew Ng's Stanford Machine Learning course with a score of 99.7%.

Music came first and never stopped. He is an active producer, engineer, and rhythm guitarist: he won a Grammy for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, earned a Grammy nomination as a producer, toured with John Hartford's Stringband, and has recording credits with Willie Nelson and Earl Scruggs. Today he co-founds and runs The Nashville Collective, a band and recording label built on live-to-tape sessions, where he continues to produce and release records.

He now designs and builds software systems by directing AI — producing the output of a full engineering team as a single architect. His portfolio includes five iOS applications, an AI-powered news platform, a browser-based DNA analysis tool, a deterministic JSON certification specification, and production websites for Nashville musicians — including the one for his own label, The Nashville Collective.