Why an AI ministry?
Because the next generation will grow up with AI the way ours grew up with the internet, and they deserve guides who understand both the technology and the faith.
AI Subject Matter Expert
Builds multi-agent AI systems every day · 60+ AI products at Nieto Engineering
Amazon Web Services · Booz Allen · DoD
40+ years of engineering for DoD, NSA, DARPA and federal agencies
Pathfinder leadership
Club director 2006–2019 · Master Guide · Instructor Trainer
Felix Nieto II
AI Subject Matter Expert Founder & CEO, Nieto Engineering Inc.
“I don’t just talk about AI. I live it, day in and day out.”Felix Nieto II
Felix is not an AI user who picked up a few tricks. He designs, builds and runs state-of-the-art AI products in production. His career started at NASA Goddard as a high-school student working on early speech synthesis, one of the roots of today’s talking AI. It ran through 40+ years of engineering for DoD, NSA, DARPA and other federal agencies, senior engineering at Booz Allen Hamilton, and technical leadership at Amazon Web Services, where he designed DoD cloud architecture. Along the way he became an AI expert, applying AI and machine learning to defense and national-security work.
Today, at Nieto Engineering, he leads a portfolio of 60+ AI-based products. Every day he builds multi-agent AI systems, where specialized AI agents research, draft, score and hand work to each other; conversational voice agents that answer live business phone lines; AI chatbots grounded in a business’s own knowledge through retrieval-augmented generation; natural language processing and machine learning pipelines; and the guardrails, evaluation and safety filters that keep AI honest. When he teaches how AI works, he is describing what he built that morning.
- AI Subject Matter Expert: architects, builds and operates multi-AI systems in production
- Founder & CEO, Nieto Engineering Inc. (est. 1992): 60+ AI-based products for business, automotive and real estate
- Amazon Web Services: Senior Delivery Consultant and Technical Lead; DoD cloud architecture in GovCloud
- Booz Allen Hamilton and 40+ years of engineering for DoD, NSA, DARPA and federal agencies, including applied AI and machine learning
- Started at NASA Goddard in high school, on early speech synthesis
- Pathfinder club director, 2006 to 2019 · 1st Place Eagle Award · Leadership Instructor Trainer · Master Guide
- Co-founder of Nieto Ministries with his wife, Neusa
Our mission
To raise young people and leaders who are smart about AI and wise with it: who understand how it works, are not fooled by it, use it honestly, and know that their worth comes from being made in God's image.
Part of Nieto Ministries
- Nieto Ministries: Join The Grind coffee house, drill team, counseling and more
- FAA Compliant Drones: the Pathfinder Drone Honor
- Wilderness Ready: survival, wilderness first aid and leadership
Built by our AI company
The AI Lab and the AI tools behind this ministry come from Nieto Engineering Inc., Felix’s AI company, which builds 60+ state-of-the-art AI-based products for businesses.