Senior Product Leader · Solutions Architect · AI Systems

Building AI-native systems for evidence-led decisions.

I lead AI products from problem framing to production—connecting product strategy, system architecture, and human oversight. Over the past decade, I’ve led product development across AI SaaS, live streaming, digital twins, community platforms, and high-scale operations.

What I'm building now

AI infrastructure, decision systems, and operational tooling for complex workflows.

In development

Digital-Democracy.de

Civic-process platform in development for making grants, laws, permits, and related public decisions visible, auditable, and easier to follow.

The work brings requirements, evidence, and process records into one accountable pathway—supporting traceable decision-making, protected AI assistance, and audit-ready outputs for citizens, municipal teams, and oversight bodies.

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Compliance Systems Audit Infrastructure Explainable AI
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AskSwedenborg

Live AI research workspace for exploring Swedenborg’s writings with source transparency. It combines corpus-grounded retrieval, structured citations, and research tools that keep the original passages visible alongside AI-assisted answers.

Built to make a dense, interconnected body of work more navigable without replacing careful reading or hiding the evidence behind a generated response.

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RAG Semantic Retrieval Research Systems

Give agents context that survives the conversation

A reliable AI workflow is not a list of models. Product intent is captured in durable context, reusable instructions, bounded execution, and verifiable evidence—so work can continue across agents and sessions without resetting the plan.

01

Establish context

Capture the user problem, current product state, constraints, decisions, and the evidence required for completion.

Context artifactsProduct briefs · architecture notes · decision records · acceptance criteria

02

Encode the method

Turn repeated ways of working into reusable skills, Markdown context files, agent directives, and project-specific workflows.

Reusable guidanceSkills · .md context · agent instructions · reusable flows

03

Direct the work

Give agents a bounded objective, only the relevant context, and explicit checkpoints. Correct assumptions before the work expands.

Execution stateScoped plans · task state · handoffs · implementation checkpoints

04

Verify and retain

Test the behavior, review the changes, verify the release, and return what was learned to the durable context layer.

Evidence retainedTests · change review · release checks · updated knowledge

Durable context

The files hold the durable memory—not the model. Models and tools can change while product intent, operating rules, and evidence remain available.

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Where I've built

Product, platform, and consulting roles across streaming, digital twins, spatial experiences, and applied AI. Overlapping engagements are shown as they occurred.

11/2022 – 05/2025

doWow / Event technology & agentic AI

Head of Product

Led the product lifecycle from discovery to scaling for an AI-powered event platform, launching an MVP that reached 900+ active users within two months.

Agentic AIBroadcastingRAGEnterprise SaaS
09/2018 – 05/2025

MBW Consulting & Engineering UG / Independent consulting

Managing Partner

Advised event- and platform-technology clients on product engineering, digital transformation, technical solution architecture, and implementation planning.

Product EngineeringSolution ArchitectureDigital Transformation
04/2022 – 10/2022

Spread AI / Engineering intelligence

Product Owner

Owned backlog and roadmap for a digital-twin SaaS platform connecting CAD and machine data with business priorities and customer needs.

Digital TwinB2B SaaSCAD Data
10/2021 – 03/2022

Inkonospace BV / Spatial experiences

Product Manager

Coordinated distributed engineering, design, and marketing teams building a Unity-based 3D content platform for real-time brand experiences.

3D PlatformsUnityProduct Delivery
01/2015 – 05/2019

Mevango GmbH / Flimme TV

Managing Partner

Built and scaled a live-streaming and social-media platform for B2B and B2C events, spanning product strategy, monetization, operations, and partnerships.

Streaming InfrastructureCommunity PlatformsEvent Systems
01/2012 – 10/2014

Nanocosmos GmbH / Streaming infrastructure

Business Development Manager

Supported product roadmap and delivery for ultra-low-latency live-streaming infrastructure, cloud services, and SDK solutions for enterprise clients.

Live StreamingSDK PlatformsEnterprise Media

How I think about building

01
Good AI systems expose reasoning, not just output.

Decision-critical systems fail when they hide their logic. Explainability and operational transparency aren't optional — they're first-class product requirements.

02
Operational trust matters more than model novelty.

Users and businesses don't care about the architecture. They care about consistency, auditability, and predictable failure modes. The best AI systems feel boring to use.

03
Human oversight should be designed into the workflow.

AI in regulated or high-stakes environments isn't automation — it's tooling. The interface between AI output and human decision-making is where product strategy lives.

04
Most enterprise AI problems are infrastructure problems.

Model performance matters less than data pipelines, evaluation systems, and operational feedback loops. Sustainable AI products are built, not found.

900+
Users onboarded in MVP launch
50k+
Participants across live event systems
15+
Enterprise & large-scale clients
10+
Years building digital platforms

People I've built with

Matthew brought structure and stability to technically complex environments while keeping teams aligned under real operational pressure.

JW
James Watkins
Managing Director · Gnarles Media

Matthew combines strategic product thinking with strong technical execution and consistently delivered solutions that improved engagement at scale.

JH
Jana Hille
Head of Events · droidcon Global

Matthew blends systems thinking with hands-on execution. He communicates clearly across technical and non-technical teams, anticipates failure points, and keeps live operations calm.

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Volodymyr Iatsyshyn
CEO & Founder · GeeksCode

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