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Editorial portrait of a person wearing Snapchat Spectacles camera glasses01
SNAPCHAT / AUTOMATED RETAIL
Bright yellow Snapbot vending machine in a shopping mall concourse02
Matte black MSCHF x Rolling Loud custom vending machine with pink graphics03
MSCHF / CUSTOM RETAIL
Glossy black Toyota Survey and Redeem automated retail kiosk04
TOYOTA / EXPERIENTIAL RETAIL
FIJI Water branded vending installation built into a blue exhibition wall05
FIJI WATER / BRAND ACTIVATION
Build and test lab with two vending machines, a camera rig and a technician in a lab coat06
LAB / BUILD + TEST
FRESH.BOWL connected food retail kiosk with a touchscreen displaying locally sourced meals07
FRESH.BOWL / CONNECTED FOOD RETAIL
Orange Icebox Pantry unattended retail machine with a digital ordering screen08
Toyota experiential kiosk at a live event with an attendee interacting with the machine09

FIELD ARCHIVE / BUILT IN THE REAL WORLD

TEDDY SANCHEZ

I LIKECOMPLICATEDPROBLEMS.

BUILDER / FOUNDER / TECHNICAL OPERATOR

02 / WORK

Selected Builds

01 / SNAPCHAT

SPECTACLES

AUTOMATED RETAIL / LAUNCH SYSTEM

Translating one of the most recognizable consumer products of its moment into a physical automated retail experience — purpose-built for launch.

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02 / MSCHF

MSCHF custom experiential machine surrounded by illuminated red vending walls in a darkened room

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CUSTOM SYSTEM / EXPERIENTIAL TECHNOLOGY

03 / FARMERS FRIDGE

Technology at scale.

CONNECTED RETAIL / FIELD DEPLOYMENT

The most important technology isn't the kind that lives in a lab. It's the kind that has to keep working — in a hallway, in a cafeteria, under load, at 2am.

Twenty years of making things work in the real world.

Selected experience

Toyota branded interactive vending and experiential installation at a conference event booth

TOYOTA

EXPERIENTIAL / AUTOMATED RETAIL

JPMorgan Chase for Business custom interactive vending machine with blue lighting at an event

JPMORGAN CHASE

CUSTOM RETAIL EXPERIENCE

ToyotaGoogleSnapchatJPMorgan Chase
03 / NOW

Building Now

Physical technology platform.

Automated retail, experiential systems and connected hardware built for real-world environments. Custom machines, software integrations and field deployment — not prototypes.

— AUTOMATED RETAIL

— CUSTOM MACHINES

— EXPERIENTIAL SYSTEMS

— CONNECTED HARDWARE

— FIELD DEPLOYMENT

— INTEGRATIONS

Optimal Station logo
NeuroMatch platform screenshot showing Strength Alignment hiring interface with hiring is shifting to Strength Alignment headline

The best hires aren't defined by credentials. They're defined by strengths, motivations and fit. NeuroMatch is being built to shift hiring toward that deeper alignment.

Teddy is actively helping build the platform. This isn't a past project — it's a live build.

Strength alignment
People + role fit
Motivation mapping
Team dynamics
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FIELD ARCHIVE

Selected machines, activations, prototypes and systems built in the real world.

Bright yellow Snapbot vending machine in a shopping mall concourse02
SNAPBOT / AUTOMATED RETAIL
Editorial portrait of a person wearing Snapchat Spectacles camera glasses01
SNAPCHAT / AUTOMATED RETAIL
Matte black MSCHF x Rolling Loud custom vending machine with pink graphics03
MSCHF / CUSTOM RETAIL
Glossy black Toyota Survey and Redeem automated retail kiosk04
TOYOTA / EXPERIENTIAL RETAIL
FIJI Water branded vending installation built into a blue exhibition wall05
FIJI WATER / BRAND ACTIVATION
Build and test lab with two vending machines, a camera rig and a technician in a lab coat06
LAB / BUILD + TEST
Man in a fedora interacting with a Toyota experiential touchscreen at a live event13
TOYOTA / EXPERIENTIAL SYSTEM
FRESH.BOWL connected food retail kiosk with a touchscreen displaying locally sourced meals07
FRESH.BOWL / CONNECTED FOOD RETAIL
Bright yellow KEEN branded vending machine dispensing shoes in a wood-walled space11
KEEN / BRANDED RETAIL
Dual gray Tesla branded vending machines side by side on a dark wood floor12
TESLA / AUTOMATED RETAIL
Forest-green age-verification vending machine with an identity tablet and ID-check interface14
IDENTITY · CIVIC / AGE VERIFICATION
White Toyota experiential kiosk with survey and redeem screen at a trade show on red carpet15
TOYOTA / LIVE ACTIVATION
Two donation-station vending machines with pink heart branding deployed outside a glass building16
DONATION STATION / INTERACTIVE GIVING
Toyota experiential kiosk at a live event with an attendee interacting with the machine09
TOYOTA / EXPERIENTIAL SYSTEM
Bright yellow Snapbot kiosk with a circular display standing outdoors on a dirt path by a pond10
SNAPBOT / FIELD UNIT
Orange Icebox Pantry unattended retail machine with a digital ordering screen08
ICEBOX PANTRY / UNATTENDED RETAIL
Lightly travel touchscreen vending machine with an orange-to-purple gradient body in a warehouse17
LIGHTLY / TOUCHSCREEN RETAIL
Teal Herbalife branded vending machine stocked with protein chips in a warehouse18
HERBALIFE / BRANDED RETAIL
04 / ABOUT

Built by troubleshooting.

Roughly two decades working in and around automated retail systems — electronics, motors, payment systems, software, communications, manufacturing, installations and all the problems that inevitably appear when technology leaves the lab and enters the real world.

Over time, the systems changed.

Machines became connected platforms.

Hardware became software.

Software became data.

Data increasingly became AI.

The approach stayed surprisingly similar.

Break it down.

Understand it.

Make it work.

Building things is better when they matter.

Teddy is also drawn to work where technology, entrepreneurship and access can strengthen communities and create opportunity. Good Life THRIVE is one expression of that — connecting communities with tools to learn and grow.

Teddy Sanchez beside the Relay for Life coffee and donation machine at a community event

RELAY FOR LIFE / COMMUNITY

05 / CONTACT

Got something
complicated?

If you're working on something technical, unusual or difficult to figure out, I'd like to hear about it.

WHAT ARE WE WORKING ON?

TEDDY SANCHEZ

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