Christian Sidak

AI @ Anduril | Ex-Palantir | Harvard

Costa Mesa, California, United States

About

Experience

  • Anduril Industries (Full-time · 1 yr 7 mos)
    • Senior Product Manager, Applied AI
      Aug 2025 - Present · 11 mos

    • Senior Product Manager, Analytics
      Dec 2024 - Aug 2025 · 9 mos

  • Founder & CTO at Spongy Mesophyll Technologies
    Feb 2023 - Nov 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Built Sentinel, a vineyard management platform that maps and tracks individual vines with sub-centimeter accuracy. Designed and shipped the full stack: iOS app, cloud infrastructure (AWS), and a real-time data pipeline processing RTK GPS data from field hardware. Built an autonomous AI operations layer that handles billing, customer support, and field data processing, reducing operational headcount to near-zero. Featured in Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade News and SevenFifty Daily.

  • Palantir Technologies (Full-time · 4 yrs 3 mos)
    • Product Manager, Computer Vision
      Mar 2020 - Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos

      Led product for computer vision and geospatial AI capabilities within Palantir's defense portfolio. Defined roadmap and shipped features used by analysts across US military and intelligence community. Managed the full lifecycle from customer discovery through deployment, working directly with end users in operational settings. Patented three different novel computer vision inventions.

    • Deployment Strategist
      Nov 2018 - Mar 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Led development of NIDAP on Palantir Foundry for NIH. Built distributed pipelines for DNA/RNA sequence analysis. Integrated clinical, imaging, and genetic data into unified platform.

  • Equity Research Analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch
    Jul 2017 - Sep 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Ranked number one in analyst hiring class of 2017. Covered initiation of Redfin and Cardlytics. General coverage of consumer internet, lead generation, and video game stocks.

  • Summer Analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch
    Jun 2016 - Aug 2016 · 3 mos

    Small-cap consumer internet equity research. Built comparable company analyses and contributed to published research notes.