01 · About
Bio, interests, and how he spends his weekends.
Matt is a Staff Product Manager at Gusto, where he leads an internal AI assistant for the front-office team. It helps them move through customer questions a little faster, with less time spent digging for the right doc.
He cares about AI tools that save someone an actual hour of their day, the texture of small civic software, and the kind of hardware that does one thing well and then stops asking for attention. He likes empty states, failure modes, and the third tab nobody opens.
Outside of work he's a techie dad. He hikes the San Gabriels with the family, tinkers with weird gadgets at a desk that's slowly overtaking the kitchen, bikes when his back lets him, boulders badly but happily, and disappears into a video game for a couple of weeks once or twice a year.
02 · Work
Over a decade of industry experience, working on the world's most delightful products.
What I keep coming back to: the products that endure are the ones that quietly removed a step from someone's day. A button you don't have to click. A translation you don't have to wait for. A doc you don't have to dig through. The good ones become invisible, and you only notice them when they're gone.
03 · Side things
A neighborhood platform for sharing the fruit growing on your block. Post your surplus lemons, claim someone else's avocados, turn the stuff rotting on the sidewalk into something useful. Started in Silver Lake while walking the dog and noticing how much fruit was just lying there.
pluckandpass.com
A TRMNL plugin that pulls Oura ring data onto a small e-ink dashboard on my wall. Sleep score, readiness, the things you'd otherwise compulsively check on your phone, relegated to a quiet object you glance at once a day.
04 · Connect
If you're working on something interesting, or you just want to swap notes on small products, hardware tinkering, or where to find a good lemon tree, I'd love to hear from you.