Engineer · Designer · Product Leader

I design, build,
and ship
software that can’t afford to fail.

Full-stack engineer and product leader with 20+ years shipping software for defense, healthcare, and startups — hands-on with the code, AI-native, and as comfortable leading a team as architecting the stack. Whether you’re hiring or building, I help get hard things into production.

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Austin, TX · Prefer email? hello@mattmccloskey.com

20+Years shipping software
5SaaS products founded
12MUsers reached
100sProducts delivered

How I Work

How I get things into production

AI can scaffold a prototype in an afternoon. Turning it into a real product — one that’s focused, secure, stable, and something people trust — is a different job. This is how I do it.

Clarify

Cut through the fog: define the real MVP, map the user journeys and personas, and bring a clear point of view to your idea — so the product knows exactly what it is and who it’s for.

Stabilize

Harden what AI helped you build — authentication, data integrity, security, error handling, performance. The things that quietly break the moment real users show up.

Polish

Turn a rough prototype into a product people trust: sharpen the user experience, the design, and the details that make it feel finished instead of generated.

Ship

Deploy it properly — infrastructure, pipelines, monitoring — and hand you something live that you can actually run, support, and grow.

How I Can Help

Lead, build, or advise

I plug into a team at whatever level the work needs — a full-time role, a hands-on build, or a focused engagement. Same person, same standards.

Direction & delivery

Lead

Product and engineering leadership, full-time or fractional. I set direction, build the team, and own delivery end to end.

Hands-on in the code

Build

Senior IC work: architecture, full-stack, and AI. I design the system and write the code that ships to production.

A clear path forward

Advise

Audits, architecture reviews, and an honest, prioritized roadmap — so your team knows exactly what to build and fix.

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Why Me

Two decades shipping software that couldn’t fail

Long before AI could scaffold an app in an afternoon, I spent 20+ years getting high-stakes software into production — for defense, healthcare, and critical infrastructure. That hard-won rigor is what I bring to your project.

VP of Product
Hypergiant2023 – 2024
Shipped AI-powered geospatial decision tools for NORAD / NORTHCOM and critical infrastructure — where “it mostly works” was never an option.
VP of Product Design
Rex2021 – 2023
Product & design across 10 startups at once — taking early ideas from concept to launched product, fast.
Technology / Design Director
Fjord · Accenture2018 – 2021
Directed a $6M F-35 data program and California’s ACA enrollment platform — 12M residents depending on it working.
Founder
Osmek2006 – 2018
Built and ran the world’s first SaaS headless CMS end-to-end, to 2,000+ accounts.

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Shipped for

NORAD / NORTHCOM
Lockheed Martin
USPS
Shell
State of California
IBM
Cisco

I Ship My Own, Too

I don’t just talk shop — I build

I’m always founding and shipping my own products, so I stay hands-on across the whole stack — not just in the strategy deck.

SaaS · Product

ShrinkNotes

Truly simple, truly private.

End-to-end encrypted practice-management software for psychotherapists. Designed, built, and shipped end-to-end with React + Node.js.

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Brand · Commerce

Sovereign Goods

There is no 2nd best.

Bitcoin-inspired apparel brand — 20+ original designs across shirts, hats, and home goods. Brand identity, photography, and storefront, all in-house.

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Writing · Substack

Strength + Curiosity

Essays at the edge of ideas.

My newsletter on strength, curiosity, and building things — from product and technology to philosophy and the examined life.

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SaaS · Product

Hostmade

From Airbnb listing to custom site — in one paste.

Paste your Airbnb listing and Hostmade builds a beautiful one-page website and a narrated promo video on your own domain — then tunes it so AI answer engines actually recommend your place.

Visit Hostmade