Christopher Dio Chavez is a technology architect with over 25 years of experience building secure, AI-driven systems that extract and analyze complex information from unstructured data. His career spanning gaming, telecommunications, oil and gas, military defense, and intelligence has equipped him with a unique ability to design robust pipelines that handle multilingual documents, identify authoritative sources, and deliver traceable, evidence-based outputs. He brings the same precision demanded by high-stakes cybersecurity to the challenge of digital trade regulatory analysis.

As an educator and certified instructor (EC-Council, CompTIA, PECB), Chris has trained hundreds of professionals in data extraction, threat intelligence, and secure system design. This pedagogical foundation directly translates to building transparent, auditable AI tools—exactly the reviewable, human-in-the-loop systems the UN ESCAP hackathon requires. His current role as Chief Cyber Security Researcher (Offense and Defense) involves leading teams in parsing vast, unstructured threat feeds and mapping them to actionable intelligence frameworks, a process nearly identical to discovering, extracting, and mapping legal provisions from heterogeneous official documents.

Chris’s technical expertise includes retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), natural language processing pipelines, and OCR-based extraction from PDFs and scanned documents—all essential for converting scattered regulatory texts into structured, citable evidence. He is deeply familiar with the open-source stack (FAISS, LangChain, LLMs) and Apache 2.0 licensing, and has contributed to building collaborative, community-driven security tools that mirror the open-source ethos of this hackathon.

He has spoken at international conferences including Black Hat, DEF CON Singapore (Demo Labs), C0C0N, and AISA Sydney on topics that intersect cybersecurity, AI, and critical data protection—demonstrating a proven ability to communicate complex technical solutions to policy and industry audiences. His experience collaborating with government agencies on information security and incident response has given him direct insight into the regulatory environments that digital trade negotiators navigate, particularly in data privacy and cross-border data flow frameworks relevant to RDTII Pillars 6 and 7.

Ranked No. 1 in the Philippines and among the global Top 50 in the TryHackMe Worldwide Hall of Fame, Chris approaches every challenge with a problem-solving mindset rooted in continuous learning and collective improvement. He views hackathons not as competitions, but as opportunities to build scalable, open-source solutions that address real-world policy needs—especially enabling developing economies to participate equitably in the digital economy.

With his extensive background in extracting truth from chaotic data, enforcing strict anti-hallucination guardrails, and designing systems that link every claim to verified evidence, Chris is fully prepared to serve as the Technical Lead for RegMap AI. He is committed to delivering a functional, multilingual, open-source regulatory mapping tool that empowers policymakers and accelerates evidence-based digital trade across the Asia-Pacific.