Matt Kadenbach
Director Of Engineering at Shield AI
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Kadenbach is a Director of Engineering with 13 years of experience building secure, scalable platforms and founding multiple startups in the AI, security, and web automation spaces. He co-founded and led engineering at two YC-backed companies—Templarbit (acquired by Zurich) and Pluto—where he scaled teams, shipped data-driven security products, and built AI browser agents secured with TEEs and ZKPs. Technically hands-on, Matt has deep backend and DevOps expertise demonstrated by open-source work on database migration tooling and a rotating TOR proxy, reflecting strong skills in database interactions, CLI tooling, and network infrastructure. He blends product-led engineering with operational rigor from enterprise and government deployments, and now directs platform applications at Shield AI. Based in California, he pairs a multidisciplinary academic background with practical startup grit and a knack for translating low-level systems work into trustworthy, auditable products. An understated strength is his history of moving from prototype to acquisition, showing he can both invent and industrialize complex technical solutions.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer and Information Sciences, Computer and Information Sciences at University of MünsterDigital Media, Digital Media at Darmstadt University of Applied SciencesApplied Cybersecurity, Applied Cybersecurity at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyLeadership in the Creative Industries, Leadership in the Creative Industries at Munster Technological UniversityS17, S17 at Y Combinator
Github Skills (19)
database-migrations10
docker10
command-line-interface10
proxy10
dockers10
ruby10
go10
sql10
command-line10
database-migration10
haproxy10
tor10
cli10
file-handling8
database-design8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
mattes/rotating-proxy
Apr 2014 - Feb 2021
Rotating TOR proxy with Docker
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:28 commits, 7 PRs, 10 pushes in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on developing and maintaining the backend infrastructure for a rotating proxy service. Their contributions include initial feature implementation, integrating Tor and Polipo (later transitioning from Delegated to Polipo) for proxy rotation. They also implemented configuration files for HAProxy, and managed environment variables to control the number of Tor instances. The work demonstrates proficiency in setting up and configuring network proxies and related infrastructure.
dockertor-proxytorpolipoproxy
mattes/migrate
Aug 2014 - May 2018
Database migrations. CLI and Golang library.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 290 commits, 108 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily worked on the `mattes/migrate` repository, which is a database migration tool. Their contributions involved updating the core functionality of the tool, specifically altering how it reads files and handles database connection details. They also developed the foundation for a command-line interface (CLI) for the tool, allowing users to create, migrate, and manage database schema versions. The commits showcase the user's focus on database interaction and build tooling.
clidatabase-migrationdatabase-migrationsgolanggo
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