My name is Ian Matson, and I'm a software engineer with a potentially unnatural desire to solve problems and hopefully learn something new along the way.
I build AI-native products, developer platforms, and full-stack systems that help people do useful things faster. I'm currently a design engineer at PostHog, where I'm doing my best to keep the website at the cutting edge.
Outside of work, I spend a probably-unreasonable amount of time building side projects, writing, reading, climbing, swimming, playing music, drinking coffee, and trying to make computers feel a little more magical.
Loud and proud alumni of Texas A&M University, where I graduated with a degree in Computer Science.
I tend to get most excited about projects that sit somewhere between:
- 🤖 Applied AI and LLM products
- 🧠 Retrieval, memory, agents, and evals
- 🚀 Developer platforms and internal tools
- 🎨 Full-stack product engineering
- ✍️ Writing, storytelling, and creative software
- 🧩 Weird little ideas that sound slightly unnecessary until they become fun
- 🚀 Cosmonaut AI (gh, web, Android): AI-powered custom choose-your-own-adventures. Live narration, branching choice-driven stories, generated cover art, and lineage-scoped world state to keep long-running stories coherent.
- 📖 PeriCopy (gh, web): A diff-based Bible memorization tool built to make repeated practice more focused and less guessy.
- 🍽 Dinner Club (gh, web): An interactive puzzle-based website to prevent my friends from RSVPing to a fancy dinner I hosted. Very practical. Very necessary.
- 🌐 Personal Website (gh, web): My corner of the internet for projects, writing, and various thoughts that escaped containment.
- 💡 LED-Cube (gh): A C-based LED matrix designed to sit on my desk and make people waste time.
- Built production RAG systems for customer support workflows, including document ingestion, retrieval pipelines, and context-aware LLM responses.
- Helped build an agent-assist product deployed to hundreds of support agents, improving NPS over the existing product by 25%.
- Worked as a founding engineer on an internal developer platform serving 100+ applications across 50 teams.
- Built backend schemas, APIs, React frontends, SSO/RBAC flows, and deployment infrastructure for platform tooling.
- Shipped event-driven AWS systems using Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, DynamoDB, and Terraform.
- Built full-stack AI side projects using SvelteKit, FastAPI, Python, DynamoDB, Pinecone, Stripe, PostHog, Sentry, ElevenLabs, and image generation APIs.
- LLM memory systems that actually preserve useful context
- AI products that feel less like demos and more like tools
- Developer experience and platform engineering
- Evals, observability, and feedback loops for AI systems
- Creative tools for storytelling, learning, and exploration
- Small teams building ambitious things
Languages: TypeScript, Python, Java, C++, HTML/CSS
Frontend: React, SvelteKit, Angular
Backend: FastAPI, Spring Boot, Node.js
AI: LangChain, Pydantic AI, RAG, embeddings, vector search, agentic workflows
Infra: AWS, GCP, Terraform, GitHub Actions, DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS
Product: Stripe, PostHog, Sentry, auth, analytics, observability, docs
- 🌐 Website: ian-matson.com
- 🖊 Blog: ian-matson.com/blog
- 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ianmatson
- 🚀 Cosmonaut: cosmonaut-ai.com
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