Matt Goodman — Software engineer, founder, and amateur elite athlete

-GOODMAN

Founder · Engineer · Austin, TX

I build software systems and the teams that run them. Background in computer vision research, distributed infrastructure, and full-stack engineering. Currently Staff Engineer at Setpoint. I like hard problems at the frontier of AI and robotics.

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Recent Writing

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April 24, 2026

Mythos and DeFi

Thoughts on Mythos, vulnerability discovery, and DeFi markets.

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December 20, 2025

What Matters?

End of the year, time to think about what matters.

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November 15, 2024

Ashenbrenner Can Go F**** Himself

A review of Leo Ashenbrenners well-researched essay on scaling laws, his time at OpenAI, and thoughts on the inevitibility of AGI by 2030

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June 21, 2024

Thoughts on Consuming and Making

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Experience

Setpoint
Staff Software Engineer
2023—Present
Cercle AI
Head of Engineering
2022—2023
ByteDance AI Lab
Computer Vision Research Engineer
2021—2023
UPenn
MS — Computer Science (Computer Vision)
2019—2021
Qualtrics
Full Stack Engineer
2017—2019