# Matthew B. **AI Platform Software Engineer** — Melbourne, Australia > Full-stack engineer with 7+ years building production AI platforms, including Sitemate's Storm (10,000+ companies) and LRQA's EiQ One. Specializes in agentic systems, GenAI, and end-to-end platform ownership. Also just a husband and future dad trying to provide the best for his family. Career Archetype: **Launchpad Trailblazer** (HS-MG) — One of the first Launchpad Trailblazers on Saywise ## Links - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matthewbilo - GitHub: http://github.com/mpsb - Website: http://mattbilo.com ## Experience ### Entrepreneur, City of Melbourne (2026-05 – 2026-06) Melbourne, VIC · Selected into the 2026 Melbourne Migrapreneurs cohort, a City of Melbourne startup program delivered with Catalysr and Arctic 90 for migrant, refugee and international-student founders building in Melbourne. Comprises of eight weekly masterclasses at Stone & Chalk Melbourne, fortnightly 1:1 coaching with the Catalysr team, and the national Catalysr community of 1,000+ migrapreneurs and mentors. ### Full Stack Engineer, AI Platform, Sitemate (2026-01 – present) Melbourne, VIC · Owns frontend architecture and integration for Storm, Sitemate's agentic AI platform serving 10,000+ companies. Shipped new agent capabilities end-to-end including document and video analysis. Led a refactor of the agent event contract across 3 teams and reduced new-engineer ramp-up to one day through documentation and onboarding videos. ### Full Stack Developer, LRQA (2024-09 – 2025-12) Hong Kong SAR · Shipped a GenAI MVP (EiQ One, an AI chatbot over supply chain data) in 1 month with a 4-person team. Developed and optimized data flows handling 85M+ data points with error rates below 0.5% per 1M requests. Raised test coverage on EiQ to 80% through structured testing, feeding findings into product decisions. ### Founder & Lead Software Engineer, Cognex (2024-03 – 2025-02) Hong Kong SAR · Founded an independent software consultancy and built full-stack English test-preparation software in Golang. Ran all company operations as founder. ### Lead Software Engineer (Frontend), The OK Trade Organisation (2022-12 – 2024-04) Hong Kong SAR · Developed and maintained an AI-powered supply chain SaaS platform. Helped push the company past break-even for the first time in June 2023 by working directly with UX and sales. Managed and mentored a junior frontend engineer through technical design and code reviews. Led development of object-detection software for a HK$500k construction project using Python and YOLOv8. ### Analyst Programmer, Hong Kong International School (2020-01 – 2021-01) Hong Kong · Cut admissions invoice upload time 80% with a PHP web app and automated daily uploads for another 40% improvement using Python and Selenium. Managed the school's MS SQL Server database (~100k records) and handled 800+ IT tickets for web apps. ### Data Science Instructional Associate, Xccelerate (2019-07 – 2022-12) Hong Kong SAR · Built and maintained Xccelerate's platforms and website (React, Gatsby, Next.js, GraphQL, NestJS, AWS) supporting 470k pageviews and 173k unique visitors tied to HK$9.1m B2C revenue. Taught Python and data science to ~260 students across workshops and immersive courses, generating HK$2.49m in revenue. ### Placement Programmer (Part-time), Hospital Authority (HA) (IT) (2017-07 – 2018-07) Hong Kong SAR · Built a query tool for HA's Oracle database used by the ~10-person IT support team. Designed the intranet UI serving ~700 employees. ## Education ### Non-degree in Computer Science, UC San Diego Extension (2020-11 – 2021-03) 4.0 GPA ### Non-degree in Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh (2020-11 – 2021-03) • Fundamentals of Calculus I ### Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computer Science (Data Science Stream), City University of Hong Kong (2015-09 – 2019-07) Relevant Coursework: • Computer Programming • Fundamentals of Internet Applications Development • Calculus and Basic Linear Algebra • Computer Organization • Computer Networks • Operating Systems • Data Structures • Software Design • Database Systems • Design and Analysis of Algorithms • Fundamentals of Data Science • Data-Intensive Computing • Machine Learning • Discrete Mathematics • Internet Security and e-Commerce Protocols ## Skills Entrepreneurship Education, Entrepreneurship, Business Ownership, AI Product Development, ESG and Compliance Technology, Angular, Full-Stack Development, Software Architecture, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Htmx, Next.js, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, Data Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Application Programming Interfaces (API), Manual Testing, Automated Software Testing, Software Testing, Microsoft Azure, Go (Programming Language), Front-End Development, Responsive Web Design, Artificial Intelligence (AI), MongoDB, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Semantic HTML, Django, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, SQL, Data Analysis, Analytics, Data Science, Algorithms, Data Structures, Computer Science, Jupyter, JavaScript, Java, HTML, CSS, Flutter, Databases, Management, Web Scraping, Dart, React.js, Node.js, HTML5, agentic AI platforms, agent SDKs, CopilotKit, AG-UI, Inngest, RAG, applied computer vision, PyTorch, OpenCV, YOLOv8, GraphQL, Apollo, Tailwind CSS, NestJS, Fastify, MS SQL Server, Docker, Jest, Cypress, structured test strategy ## Credentials - **MongoDB Node.js Developer Path** — MongoDB (issued 2022-11) - **UX Design Foundations** — Uxcel (issued 2022-07) - **The Ultimate MySQL Bootcamp: Go from SQL Beginner to Expert** — Udemy (issued 2021-04) - **Young Executive** — AustCham Hong Kong - **Associate Member** — ACS (Australian Computer Society) - **Professional Member** — ACM, Association for Computing Machinery ## AI Fluency - **Claude** (https://claude.ai) --- Source: https://saywise.com/member2531 (last modified 2026-10-06T12:29:41.774Z)