About
Christopher Celaya founded Celaya Solutions Research in El Paso, Texas, in 2024 and does all of its work himself. Before software, he spent twelve years in industrial electromechanical systems, hyperscale data center operations and medium-voltage switchgear manufacturing. That is where the lab’s habits come from.
The lab
Where the habits come from.
The lab builds search, retrieval and agent systems where every answer traces to its source and a person makes the call. Christopher writes the instruments, the papers and the notes, and builds the client work under a written scope. The person you talk to on the first call is the person who builds the system.
Christopher
Twelve years on the floor, then software.
Industrial electromechanical systems, data center operations and switchgear manufacturing all teach the same thing: assume failure, keep a record, make every state observable, and never let an automated process act without a trace back to evidence and a person who can stop it. Most language-model systems have none of that. The instruments here put it back.
WITNESS flags equipment faults with hours of lead time and writes a cited recommendation, and has no path to the controls. GREYBOOK answers from vendor manuals with the exact page and revision. Trinidad answers questions about Texas history with the record attached. Morpheus runs a trader’s market and business tools through one agent that records everything it does.
Why one person.
There is no team behind the name. The catalog, the live deployments, the papers and the client builds are the work of one operator, so one name answers for every claim on this site. When the lab needs more hands it uses its own agents, reviewed and signed the same way it asks clients to review theirs.
Background
Three kinds of industrial work.
01
Industrial electromechanical systems
Hands-on work in systems where failure has a physical consequence. Reliability, observable state and full traceability are requirements, not aspirations.
02
Hyperscale data center operations
Operations at scale under continuous uptime. Every change reviewed, logged and reversible. The operating model for how the lab records provenance.
03
Medium-voltage switchgear manufacturing
Manufacturing in the Ciudad Juarez and El Paso corridor, including border plants. Process control, consequence-aware review and quality gates shape how the instruments are designed.
Tools
What the lab builds with.
LANGUAGES
Python. TypeScript. Swift. Rust. Go.
APPLICATION FRAMEWORKS
Next.js. SwiftUI. Tauri. Hono. Astro. Node.
DATA AND RETRIEVAL
Postgres. Qdrant. SQLite. Parquet. Drizzle.
RUNTIME AND DELIVERY
Docker. Railway. Fly.io. Cloudflare. Vercel.
AGENT AND MODEL LAYER
MCP. Ollama. Unsloth. Local inference first, with a hosted fallback, never the reverse.
EDGE AND CONTROL
Node-RED. MQTT. Modbus. Safety logic stays on the edge, where the consequence is.
How the work gets done
Four rules that survive contact with a deadline.
01
Build in public
The repository is the record. Every project keeps a change log so the next person, human or agent, starts oriented instead of guessing.
02
Local first
Safety logic runs on the edge. The cloud is an enhancement, never a dependency, because a system that stops working when the link drops was never finished.
03
Ship the thin slice
Phase gates, not big bangs. A thing that runs beats a thing that is designed, and the running version tells you where to go next.
04
Write it down for the person after you
Including when that person is you, next week. Every claim on this site is written so a stranger can check it without having to ask.
Biography
Who is Christopher Celaya?
Christopher Celaya is the founder of Celaya Solutions Research, an independent research lab and consultancy in El Paso, Texas, and an industrial electromechanical technician with twelve years in critical facilities and manufacturing.
- Twelve years of industrial electromechanical experience.
- Hyperscale data center operations, medium-voltage switchgear manufacturing at a Fortune 500 manufacturer, and border manufacturing in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.
- NFPA 70E and OSHA 10 certified.
- Electrical engineering coursework at The University of Texas at El Paso and computer science coursework at El Paso Community College.
- Author of the Celaya Chain Protocol whitepaper, the Earned Autonomy Architecture preprint, the CORRIDOR: The Data Center Decade on the Border field paper, and the technical reports Coherence as a Security Primitive and Multi-Dimensional Intent Alignment.
- Founded Celaya Solutions Research in El Paso, Texas, in 2024.
- Teaches Zero to Agent, a free public course on building with AI, and gives free talks in the El Paso region.
- Contact: hello@celayasolutions.com.
Entity and contact
Legal entity.
The lab operates as Celaya Solutions LLC, El Paso, Texas. Celaya Solutions Research is the research surface of that entity. Site content licensing is stated in the footer and on the legal and data page.
Contact.
For business and research inquiries, use hello@celayasolutions.com. For direct, personal correspondence, use chris@chriscelaya.com. English or Spanish.