AI Product Engineer & Technical Leader
Tampa, Florida. Founding AI Technical Lead at Calibrate Group.
I design and ship production AI systems: agent orchestration, retrieval, tool calling, and evaluation loops. 15+ years building software that ships and stays stable, hands-on across architecture and delivery. I work at the intersection of product decisions and engineering execution.
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The agent economy watchdog. (Jul 2026)
An autonomous probe fleet that buys from services on Circle's Agent Marketplace with real USDC nanopayments and has Gemini grade whatever comes back. Other agents can then buy the resulting trust score for $0.001 a lookup. Billed as "Moody's plus Pingdom for machine commerce": a reputation layer that funds its own observations.
- Every observation is a real paid transaction.
- x402 payments with Circle Gateway batching. No accounts, no API keys.
- Gemini grades each paid response, and the graded history becomes a trust score other agents can buy.
- Runs on the Circle Agent Stack and Google Cloud Run. Submitted to the Build with Gemini XPRIZE.
- TypeScript.
Self-healing for production agents. Built for the Google Cloud Rapid Agent Hackathon, Arize track (May to June 2026).
Every 15 minutes Mender reads another agent's traces through the Arize Phoenix MCP server, clusters failures, hypothesizes a root cause, generates a focused eval set, drafts a prompt patch, re-runs the evals against the patch, and, if it measurably improves, posts a structured incident card to Slack for one-click human approval. A human still ships the fix. It also reads its own traces each cycle and tunes itself, including how many evals to generate and when to ask for help.
Verified result: it caught a real regression, where an ambiguous source currency silently defaulted to USD. On 10 generated eval cases the patched version passed 10/10, up from 4/10.
Stack: Google ADK (Python), Gemini 3 on Vertex AI, Arize Phoenix + Phoenix MCP, Slack Block Kit, Cloud Run, Cloud Scheduler, Firestore.
Founding AI Technical Lead, Jun 2026 to present
AI consulting firm serving owner-operated businesses. I work forward deployed with clients across several industries, scoping each operation and building vertical AI solutions to fit it.
Founder & AI Product Lead, Apr 2025 to present · beesla.com
AI-native platform that converts natural language into structured workflows: agent orchestration, retrieval, tool calling, and evaluation loops on Anthropic Claude. Reached 1M+ impressions across search engines and AI assistants and 80K+ unique users.
TypeScript, Node, React, Next.js, Docker, Vercel, Supabase (PostgreSQL), Anthropic Claude, vector search.
Independent studio work through Strawberry Digital. I designed and built all nine myself. They aren't public repos, so the links go to the live products.
| Product | What it is |
|---|---|
| MTT Hold'em | Interactive tournament-poker trainer. 136 lesson hands street by street plus a graded 100-hand exam covering push/fold, ICM, and M-zone play. |
| Happenin' | Events and places across 50+ US metros. Chosen, not crowdsourced. |
| EggBoo | Automated product-research and deals engine with live marketplace pricing and buying guides. |
| Mochi Meadows | Cozy offline math game for kids: arithmetic through fractions, decimals, and shapes. |
| Midsentence | A speed reader with a point of view: one word at a time, at a pace authored for each piece. No library, no import button, no settings, no speed slider. |
| Callsong | Call-and-response vocal-pitch trainer built on the expanding-scale warm-up. Plays each phrase on sampled piano, then listens as you sing it back and scores every note in cents. |
| SuddenStay | Last-minute hotel and resort deals across Florida. Each listing names the catch up front and links straight to the live price. |
| Tally | Your bank sees $87.42 at the grocery store. Tally reads the receipt and keeps every line on it. |
| Metal Vision | A Meta Quest game about getting both eyes to play together. Each eye sees its own image, and you tune the two until they lock into one. |
- AI and agents: LLM architecture, agent workflows, tool calling, orchestration, RAG, evaluation frameworks (including LLM-as-judge), structured outputs, vector search, multi-agent systems, context engineering, agent observability and tracing, self-improvement loops, MCP.
- Models, hands-on: Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Google Gemini.
- Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Node.js, SQL, C#.
- Web: React, Next.js, FastAPI.
- Data and infra: PostgreSQL, Supabase, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Firestore.
- Cloud: AWS, GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud Scheduler, Vertex AI, Secret Manager), Azure, Vercel.
Founding roles
- Calibrate Group, Founding AI Technical Lead, 2026 to present. See above.
- Strawberry Digital, Founder, 2025 to present. Independent software studio behind the products above.
- Beesla, Founder & AI Product Lead, 2025 to present. See above.
- JobPhaze, Cofounder & Founding Engineer, 2024 to 2025. Early-stage HR SaaS. Owned architecture from the services layer down to cloud infrastructure, and stood up CI/CD, testing, IaC, and monitoring from scratch.
- Weaver, Cofounder & Founding Engineer, 2023 to 2024. Early-stage consumer dating app. Owned architecture and technical direction, and designed backend systems and data models for multi-client usage.
Engineering management
- Spekit, Software Engineering Manager, 2022. Series A SaaS. Scaled the team from 3 to 20+, and owned hiring, engineering standards, on-call culture, and code review.
- PwC, Software Engineering Manager, 2020 to 2021. Led development within a ~60 person engineering organization delivering a cloud-based enterprise platform, working directly with business stakeholders in a regulated environment.
- LoanLogics, Software Engineering Manager, 2018 to 2019. Built and led a team of 15 to deliver v1.0 of a cloud-based underwriting platform in regulated fintech. Microservices on AWS with CI/CD.
Earlier
- iProcedures, Tech Lead Software Engineer, 2016 to 2018. Led development of a real-time clinical platform for anesthesia and surgical monitoring, shipped on iPad in a HIPAA-regulated environment.
MS in Computer Engineering, University of South Florida.
- Site: mattspaulding.org
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/spauldingmatthew
- Beesla: beesla.com