Matthew Boback. Backend and platform engineer in Toronto.
I build systems where the failure modes are visible: doors that keep working when the internet doesn't, an agent that can't quote a page it never read, and a scanner that remembers what your site looked like before the last deploy. I care about the operator's view of a system as much as the architecture behind it.
- 2026 — present
Platform Engineer
MnB SecuritySole engineer on the software for a commercial security integrator. A cloud-managed access-control and video platform whose site computers keep authorizing card taps through internet outages, and an LLM research agent whose briefs are checked against the pages they cite before a person reads them.
- 2026 — present
StageFlow
Independent · open sourceA self-hostable web quality scanner: seven scanners behind one report contract, per-project baselines so CI can answer whether a deploy made things worse, and a live demo anyone can run.
- 2024 — present
AlchemizeCV
Independent · in productionA job-application product: evidence-grounded résumé tailoring, a catalog of over a thousand job boards, and Greenhouse submission that runs only after the user approves it. Live at alchemizecv.com.
- Earlier
Web Developer & Accessibility Lead
Design4AccessMoved a 200-page site between content management systems while keeping it at WCAG 2.0 AA. That is where the accessibility focus in StageFlow comes from.
Roles
Backend, platform, or full-stack engineering where one person is trusted with architecture, operator UX, testing and deployment together.
Systems
Distributed systems with real consequences, LLM agents that need guarantees in code, and products with an operations story.
Where
Toronto, Canada, hybrid, or remote. Open to contract work as well as full-time roles.
Education
Bachelor of Computer Science
Carleton University