Tampa, Florida
Founding AI Technical Lead at Calibrate Group

Matt Spaulding

AI Product Engineer & Technical Leader

I've been writing software for more than 15 years. These days it's mostly AI agents.

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

I've built production systems in enterprise and growth-stage companies, much of it under regulation. At PwC I led development inside a ~60-person engineering org. At Spekit I grew a Series A team from 3 to 20+. Earlier, fintech and healthcare platforms.

Today I'm the founding AI technical lead at Calibrate Group, an AI consulting firm for owner-operated businesses. The role is forward deployed: I embed with clients in several industries and build vertical AI solutions around how each business runs.

I also run Strawberry Digital, the software studio I started in Tampa in 2025. It publishes its own apps, including a poker trainer, a Florida travel deals site, a kids' math game, and a speed reader.

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. On my own time I build 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 move between product and engineering: I translate business priorities into systems that ship cleanly, and I sit with the customers who use them.

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.

Products I've built and shipped.

Independent studio work through Strawberry Digital. I designed and built every one of these in-house.

What I bring to the table.

Agentic AI Systems

Designing and deploying autonomous agent architectures: orchestration, memory, reliability patterns, and the tracing needed to debug them.

LLM Architecture

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

Enterprise & SaaS Architecture

Multi-tenant SaaS built on microservices, API-first design, event-driven systems, and data pipelines.

Cloud Platforms

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

Engineering Leadership

Managed engineering teams at Spekit, PwC, and LoanLogics and set their architecture and code quality standards.

AI Governance & Reliability

Guardrails and human approval before AI changes reach production. In Mender, a prompt patch only reaches Slack for a person's sign-off if it measurably improves on the generated evals.

Where I've built.

2026 – Present
Founding AI Technical Lead
Calibrate Group
AI consulting firm serving owner-operated businesses. Forward deployed with clients across several industries, scoping each operation and building vertical AI solutions to fit it.
2025 – Present
Founder
Strawberry Digital
Nine live products, including a Meta Quest game and a receipt scanner that reads every line item with Claude. Weekly analytics reporting across eight of the properties, pulling from Search Console, GA4, and Vercel.
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. I owned it end to end, including pilot delivery.
2024 – 2025
Cofounder & Founding Engineer
JobPhaze
Early-stage HR SaaS. Owned system architecture across services 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 dating 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. Stayed hands-on in system design while the team grew.
2020 – 2021
Software Engineering Manager
PwC
Led development within a ~60-person engineering organization delivering a cloud-based enterprise platform in a complex regulated environment. Guided architecture across services and worked directly with business stakeholders to match systems to operational needs.
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
Tech lead on a real-time clinical platform for anesthesia and surgical monitoring, shipped on iPad in a HIPAA-regulated environment.

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.