Max Matthews
Applied AI engineer who ships.
Open to senior full-stack and AI engineering roles. Remote, or relocating for the right team.
Applied AI engineer who ships.
Open to senior full-stack and AI engineering roles. Remote, or relocating for the right team.
I'm Max Matthews, a senior full-stack JavaScript developer. For the past decade I was CTO at tuzag, leading the architecture of an agentic AI platform for healthcare and B2B/B2C clients. Along the way I've shipped RAG-powered chatbots, remote patient monitoring for the VA, and the platforms behind them. I bring technical depth across React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Postgres alongside leadership experience in hiring, mentoring, and setting technical strategy. These days, most of that execution runs through Claude Code.
Syracuse has been home since college. Half my career has been remote and I'm open to relocating. My dog Stella has been my constant companion through most of it. When I'm not at a keyboard I'm usually knee-deep in a DIY project on the house, or helping a friend with theirs.
I do my best work where the tech and the product are the same job. At tuzag that meant CTO calls one hour and shipping a feature the next. At Hack Upstate it meant running a JavaScript bootcamp and modernizing the curriculum with AI tools. Either way the loop is the same: figure out what's worth building, ship it, learn from how people actually use it.
Most of my code now ships through Claude Code as my pair programmer. I drive architecture, judge the trade-offs, and review every change. AI handles the implementation grind.
The leverage compounds. I take on bigger scope, learn new stacks faster, and ship things I wouldn't have attempted alone. The most recent rebuild of tuzag's platform, a modern React 19, self hosted Supabase, and realtime-collaboration stack, was built this way.
Conversational AI Startup
Entrepreneurial senior full-stack JavaScript developer and technical leader with 10+ years of experience building, scaling, and shipping applications across startups, enterprise, and government.
Careers in Code Bootcamp
Led software education program operations, modernized curriculum with AI tools, and built student pipelines into tech careers.
Agentic AI CMS (content management system) for building conversational relationships.
AI-powered digital concierge demonstrating advanced RAG implementation and conversational storytelling
RESTful API for generating tailored content on the fly stored in headless CMS or generated using Gen AI.
6-month full-stack JavaScript bootcamp with modernized curriculum incorporating AI tools and APIs.