Multinex team

Built by engineers who ship AI infrastructure.

A small team focused on one outcome: make AI sessions remember what happened, protect what matters, and hand work forward without losing state.

Al BeffordA

Al Befford

Chief Executive Officer

CEO
Al brings over 25 years bridging petrochemical, fine chemical, specialty chemical, and agrochemical industries with advanced technology integration. He has served as a Sr./Process Engineer at Chevron Phillips Chemical, led site-wide DCS control system conversions and >$100MM plant designs at Kemira Water Solutions, and held senior engineering roles at Evonik, BASF, and Syngenta. A certified Six Sigma Black Belt Coach with deep expertise in complex automation architectures, he leads on securing, scaling, and optimizing enterprise-grade infrastructure.

Verified proficiencies

Enterprise InfrastructureSix Sigma Black BeltAutomation ArchitectureScale Operations
Christopher RijosC

Christopher Rijos

Founder & Lead Architect

Founder & Architect
Christopher is the principal architect behind Multinex. Formerly founder/president of Warp Industries (AI cloud orchestration). His background spans Principal SWE at Ahold Delhaize, Founding Engineer at Kodex (a16z-backed law-enforcement product), Senior Engineer at VistaJet Global, Senior Engineer at Ally Bank (greenfield compliance-first support system), and AI red-teaming at Mercor. He focuses on AI-native adoption at scale.

Verified proficiencies

Node.jsReactRustDistributed SystemsAI Architecture
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Jamaal BarnettJ

Jamaal Barnett

Frontend & Community Growth

Core Engineering
Jamaal is a senior frontend architect with a decade of experience engineering high-performance, scalable web applications. He commands the React and Angular ecosystems with strict TypeScript for resilient, type-safe codebases, and owns the full SDLC from architecture to deployment — keeping precision engineering and premium user experience tightly linked.

Verified proficiencies

TypeScriptReactAngularIonicDeveloper Relations
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Shannon O'BrienS

Shannon O'Brien

Legal Counsel & Compliance Director

Legal & Security
Shannon leads compliance and legal, focusing on regulations, governance, and the legal realities of building and deploying emerging technology.She has spent much of her career running and overseeing businesses in highly regulated industries, navigating licensing rules, compliance standards, and evolving state regulation.Her current focus is the intersection of civil law, technology, and AI — and how legal frameworks will shape the future of AI systems.

Verified proficiencies

Regulatory ComplianceData PrivacySOC2HIPAAEnterprise Law

How we work

Small team. Clear reasons. Products buyers understand.

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We build for daily AI users, not demo audiences.

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We ship protection that works before compliance asks for it.

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We name products after what they do, not what sounds impressive.