Matthew
Kyawmyint
Pronounced “Jaw-me-int”.
Disclosure: copy drafted with a model from his résumé, review pending.
Founding engineer. Builds AI agents for regulated industries, most recently as the only engineer taking a voice and chat agent from zero to production with universities.
Location: Davis, California. Operates remotely.
Features
Voice agents with a human in the loop
A phone agent on OpenAI Realtime and Twilio that hands callers to a university contact center by attended transfer, and plays its disclosure before any call proceeds.
Evals as a ship gate
Mutation-tested evals (each check proven to catch a planted regression), a bot-to-bot voice eval, and a deploy gate that blocks changes to safety-critical paths without a passing receipt.
Safety that fails closed
Crisis detection that pages a person, guards on regulated figures, cross-tenant redaction, and governance rules wired into every prompt with a CI check. Passed a HECVAT security review.
Self-test
Planted regressions must turn a check red. That is how a check proves it works.
| Check | Result | Measured |
|---|---|---|
| Not yet run | – | Press the run button. |
Revision history
| Rev. | Change |
|---|---|
| 2025 – now | Protagonist. Founding Engineer |
| 2025 | Contract engineering, early-stage startups |
| 2024 – 2025 | Workmaps. Founding Software Engineer |
| 2022 – 2024 | Everest AI. Senior Software Engineer |
| 2022 | Ethos Life. Software Engineer |
| 2018 – 2022 | Amazon Web Services. Software Development Engineer |
| Earlier | Japa. Cofounder (smart parking, UC Davis) |
Operating procedure: working with Matthew
Send the problem in writing
Written context comes first. State the problem, the constraints and what has been tried.
Define success and failure before building
Scope the success metric. List the failure modes. Both are agreed before work starts.
Ship the smallest live version
Release behind evals. Expand only after the evals hold.
Fail closed on safety-critical paths
A safety-critical path that cannot decide stops, and pages a human.
Hand off with documentation
The system is documented so that it runs without him.