About José Sanz — Forward Deployed AI Engineer

José Sanz is a Forward Deployed AI Engineer and the founder of ZNAS LLC, a Forward Deployed AI Engineering firm based in Arizona serving businesses across the United States. With 17 years of experience building production systems across healthcare, airlines, finance, and telecommunications, and AI Strategy certification from MIT Sloan, José specializes in taking AI initiatives from stuck pilot to running production system.

He embeds directly with client teams to scope the real problem, build production-grade AI systems — including retrieval pipelines, agent infrastructure, and LLM integrations into existing codebases — and owns the outcome until the team can operate the system independently.

ZNAS LLC engagements serve CEOs and founders of companies with 20 to 200 employees whose AI implementations have stalled after a first vendor or consultant attempt. José is also co-founder of Visionarys and the creator of open-source engineering tools including asyncapi-codegen and MemQL.