Current · SAIC
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Federal Transit & Community Data Modernization
Department of Transportation · SAIC, 2025–present
Active

Vast amounts of transit data exist in the public domain — ridership, on-time performance, accessibility metrics, funding flows. Almost none of it is synthesized into a view that actually serves the decision-makers who determine how agencies operate. I'm building the architecture and analytical frameworks to change that: centralizing disparate data sources, defining community impact metrics that sit alongside financial ones, and translating the output into formats that governance-level stakeholders can act on.

The animating question: what would transit policy look like if it were optimized for the communities it serves, rather than the balance sheets of the agencies running it?

RAG pipelines Data architecture Executive dashboards Community metrics Federal modernization
Scale: Full agency modernization — Department of Transportation
02
Hypersonics Community AI & Data Strategy
Navy · SAIC, 2025–present
Active

Building AI/ML strategy and data architecture for the Hypersonics community — a domain with reach across Navy, DARPA, and NASA programs that generates enormous volumes of ground test, flight test, and modeling & simulation data. The challenge is not collecting data; it is making it retrievable and useful at the speed the mission demands.

Delivered a RAG-enabled system for the Navy HyperLink program ingesting hundreds of gigabytes of test and M&S data — reducing analysis timelines from months to seconds. Authoring technical whitepapers that define how next-generation architectures get built across this community.

RAG systems LLM integration Agentic workflows Technical whitepapers Defense AI
Scale: Community level — Navy, DARPA, NASA Hypersonics
Prior · AFWERX Prime
03
UAS & eVTOL Data Programs
AFWERX Prime · Air Force, 2023–2025
Complete

Served as key data analyst, program manager, and technical point of contact across five programs totaling more than $35M in SBIR/STRATFI funding. Led a multidisciplinary team through comprehensive analysis of data types, storage architectures, compute requirements, and cost modeling to support unmanned aerial systems operations in contested environments.

Drove recommendations for data implementation architecture and explored ML pipelines for electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle analysis — contributing to the Secretary of the Air Force's Business Case Analysis.

Program management ML pipelines UAS / eVTOL Data architecture SBIR / STRATFI
Scale: $35M+ portfolio · Air Force enterprise
Prior · Space Systems Command
04
Data Fabric & Enterprise Data Governance
Space Systems Command, CIO · 2022–2023
Complete

Restarted and led the SSC Data Stewardship Group — linking 70+ key data stakeholders across SSC, the Department of the Air Force, and the US Space Force to synchronize enterprise data management, analysis, and catalog efforts. Drove the rewrite of the SSC Data Plan, aligning existing data strategy with DoD/DAF/USSF frameworks and establishing LOEs subsequently adopted as standards by two additional field commands.

Analyzed 69 Space Sensing programs to identify data facets and reduce stakeholder meeting overhead from 60 hours to zero in three months.

Data governance Policy & strategy Stakeholder management Space Force / DAF Enterprise data
Scale: 6,300+ SSC military, civilian & contractor personnel
Forward-looking
05
AI & Limb Salvage Research
PhD direction · In development
In development

Limb salvage research is a nascent field — and the existing literature centers predominantly on older male patients. Young women are nearly absent. I am one of the youngest long-term limb salvage patients in the literature, and I've outlived the anecdotal five-year threshold by a significant margin while continuing to regain function.

The research is already running. A daily capacity instrument I built and operate myself is generating the longitudinal dataset: biometrics, subjective body signal, recovery load, and environmental variables, cross-referenced over time in a patient-generated record. The PhD formalizes what the instrument is already producing. The problem has always been clear. Now there is data.

Responsible AI Medical research Limb salvage Health equity PhD research
Why it matters: Patient-generated longitudinal dataset · PhD target Fall 2027
Personal
Intelligence system
Field Currency
A self-built two-file HTML intelligence system for staying at the frontier of AI and data without drowning in noise. Calls the Anthropic API with web search to surface the week's highest-signal developments, scored and tagged by topic cluster. A companion log tracks consumption, streaks, topic coverage, and generates weekly synthesis. No backend. No build step. Pure craft.
Capacity instrument
AEGIS
A daily capacity instrument built because commercial wellness tools produce insights averaged against populations that don't include a limb salvage patient with a dynamic orthosis. Synthesizes biometric readiness and subjective body signal into a single daily verdict — and logs every entry to a longitudinal dataset that is the foundation of an active self-study. Named for the breastplate of Athena. Built to hold the shield so I don't have to.
Engineering project
The Iron Man Brace Project
When I was eight years old I wanted to build the Iron Man suit. Life interrupted that ambition — and then gave it back in a different form. I'm exploring adding Iron Man suit components to my orthotic. Part engineering project, part statement about what assistive technology can be when you refuse to let it define the ceiling.
This site
kiannimartinez.com
Built from scratch in pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — no framework, no build step, no template. A public-facing thought leadership platform and private productivity workspace in one codebase. Designed to be editorial, personal, and functional in equal measure. The same philosophy I bring to everything: build it well, build it yours.
Personal AI infrastructure · In development
Unreleased project
A multi-agent personal operating system currently in active development. Details withheld pending IP filing. More soon.