Tampa, Florida
Open to Senior AI Engineering & Technical Product Roles
Remote

Matt Spaulding

I design and ship production AI systems: agent orchestration, retrieval, and evaluation that hold up under real-world constraints. Hands-on across architecture and delivery, from first prototype to production.

About

15+ years shipping production software.
Now building the agent economy.

I've built and scaled production systems across enterprise, growth-stage, and regulated environments, including a ~60-person engineering org at PwC, a Series A team I grew from 3 to 20+ at Spekit, and regulated platforms in fintech and healthcare.

I founded Beesla, an AI-native platform integrating agent workflows, retrieval pipelines, and production guardrails from day one, reaching 1M+ impressions across search engines and AI assistants and 80K+ unique users. My current work is agentic systems that transact: autonomous agents that hold their own wallets, buy and sell services in USDC, and back every claim with a verifiable receipt.

I work at the intersection of product decisions and engineering execution: translating business priorities into systems that ship cleanly, and sitting with the customers who use them.

Featured Project

Actuary402:
the agent economy, measured.

AI agents now buy services from other agents over the x402 payment protocol: USDC micropayments, no accounts, no API keys. What nobody built was the trust layer underneath. Actuary402 is an autonomous watchdog that buys from the services on Circle's Agent Marketplace with real, policy-capped USDC, measures uptime, latency, and protocol conformance, has Gemini grade every paid response in production, and sells the resulting trust scores back to other agents at $0.001 per lookup. We pay. Directories index.

An unattended probe fleet runs a round every 30 minutes with no human in the loop, every purchase and sale settles through Circle Gateway with a verifiable receipt, and the agent holds its own MPC wallet whose spending rules are enforced by the wallet itself, not by the code that could misbehave. Submitted to the $2M Build with Gemini XPRIZE with the $50K Circle Agentic Economy Prize opt-in.

Circle Agent Stack (Agent Wallets, Gateway Nanopayments, x402 v2) · Gemini · Google Cloud Run · TypeScript.

Shipped Work

Products I've built and shipped.

Independent studio work through Strawberry Digital: designed, built, and shipped in-house.

MTT Hold'em mttholdem.com

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' happenin.city

Curated events and places discovery across 50+ US metros. Chosen, not crowdsourced.

EggBoo eggboo.com

Automated product-research and deals engine with live marketplace pricing and buying guides.

Mochi Meadows mochimeadows.app

Cozy offline math game for kids: arithmetic through fractions, decimals, and shapes.

Midsentence midsentence.app

A speed reader with a point of view: one word at a time, at a pace authored for each piece, with no library, no import, and no slider. You tune in, you don't operate it.

Callsong callsong.app

Call-and-response vocal-pitch trainer built on the classic expanding-scale warm-up. Plays each phrase on piano, listens as you sing it back, and scores every note in cents.

Core Expertise

What I bring to the table.

Agentic AI Systems

Designing and deploying autonomous agent architectures with orchestration, memory, and reliability patterns.

LLM Architecture

Context engineering, structured outputs, evaluation frameworks, and retrieval-augmented generation at scale. Hands-on across Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, and Google Gemini.

Enterprise & SaaS Architecture

Scalable system design, microservices, API-first platforms, and operational reliability at enterprise scale.

Cloud Platforms

AWS, GCP, and Azure architecture. Infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native operational patterns. Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform.

Engineering Leadership

Team building, delivery discipline, cross-functional alignment, and shipping culture in fast-paced environments.

AI Governance & Reliability

Production readiness frameworks, guardrails, risk assessment, and compliance in regulated domains.

Experience

Where I've built.

2025 – Present
Founder & AI Product Lead
Beesla
Built an AI-native platform converting natural language into structured workflows: agent orchestration, retrieval, tool calling, and evaluation loops on Anthropic Claude. Reached 1M+ impressions and 80K+ unique users. End-to-end ownership from architecture to pilot delivery.
2024 – 2025
Cofounder & Founding Engineer
JobPhaze
Early-stage HR SaaS. Owned system architecture across services, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. Established CI/CD, testing, IaC, and monitoring from scratch.
2023 – 2024
Cofounder & Founding Engineer
Weaver
Owned architecture and technical direction for an early-stage consumer app. Designed backend systems and data models for multi-client usage and growth.
2022
Software Engineering Manager
Spekit
Scaled engineering from 3 to 20+ at a Series A SaaS startup. Owned hiring, engineering standards, on-call culture, and code review. Hands-on in system design through rapid iteration.
2020 – 2021
Software Engineering Manager
PwC
Led development within a ~60-person engineering organization delivering a cloud-based enterprise platform. Guided architecture across services and worked directly with business stakeholders to match systems to real operational needs, in a complex regulated environment.
2018 – 2019
Software Engineering Manager
LoanLogics
Built and led a team of 15 to deliver v1.0 of a cloud-based underwriting platform in regulated fintech. Microservices architecture on AWS with CI/CD.
2016 – 2018
Tech Lead Software Engineer
iProcedures
Led development of a real-time clinical platform for anesthesia and surgical monitoring, shipped on iPad in a HIPAA-regulated environment.
Principles

How I operate.

Ship the real thing. A live system with receipts beats a deck with projections.

Sit with the customer. The best product decisions happen inside someone else's workflow.

Automate the work, keep the judgment. Agents run the loops; a human owns the rules.

Momentum is a decision. Most projects stall waiting on choices, not code.