Chris Desmarais
Owner at Marais Home
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolChris Desmarais is a product leader with nine years of experience shaping conversational AI and developer-focused platforms, currently Head of Product at peaq and offering fractional product leadership through pm3.xyz. He has held progressive roles from Product Manager on IBM’s Watson Assistant to Head of Solutions Engineering and Product Lead at startups like Stardust and Rasa, blending technical program management with go-to-market and solutions engineering experience. Comfortable in remote and hybrid environments, he excels at translating complex technical capabilities into usable product experiences for developer and enterprise customers. Based in Lexington, Kentucky, he combines a Business Economics degree with hands-on product delivery across AI, chatbots, and blockchain-adjacent spaces, and is known for moving quickly between strategic roadmap decisions and customer-facing solutions. An uncommon strength is his track record of switching between in-house leadership and fractional engagements, enabling rapid impact for both early-stage teams and scaling organizations.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Business Economics, Bachelor's degree Business Economics at University of Kentucky
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
nlu10
machine-learning10
bots10
voice-assistant10
botkit10
spacy10
rasa10
slack10
natural-language-processing10
conversational-ai10
conversational-bots10
bot-framework10
nlp10
conversational-agents10
rasa-chatbot10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
desmarchris/ai-forum-lab
Mar 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:38 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
RasaHQ/retail-demo
Dec 2020 - Apr 2021
Rasa's retail starter pack
Contributions:7 reviews, 64 commits, 40 PRs in 4 months
rasapythonbotretailchatbot
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