About
Matthew Krick is a freelance architect, mentor, and the technical co-founder of Parabol. He grew Parabol from an idea to a thriving SaaS serving over 500,000 users. Most recently, the company raised their Series A, backed by investors such as Microsoft M12, Charles River Ventures, and Slack Fund.
Work Experience
Parabol
2016 - Present
Leadership
- Achieved product/market fit through user interviews, testing countless hypotheses, and rapidly iterating
- Grew the team from 3 to 30 employees while maintaining a strong engineering culture
- Led by example by continuing to write code, perform code reviews, and mentor engineers
- Prioritized early-stage growth over monetizing a niche market, ultimately resulting in raising our seed round
Product
- Created an open-source, seamless, real-time collaboration platform including deep integrations with GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Google, Microsoft, Slack, and more
- Introduced AI-powered search using the latest large language models (LLMs) to improve user experience
- Authored multiple top-ranked guides on Redis and GraphQL best practices, including dataloaders, integrations, and performance
DevOps
- Orchestrated a migration to Kubernetes resulting in improved scalability and faster deploys
- Automated the CI/CD release pipeline with GitHub Actions reducing deploy time to under 5 minutes
- Developed a build architecture to seamlessly deploy to airgapped, private, and public clouds
- Promoted the trend of a two-service backend (stateless GraphQL Executor, stateful WebSocket server), avoiding the pitfalls of microservices and monoliths
Peace Corps
2014 - 2016
Volunteer, Programming and Business Strategy
Ecos Consulting (now ENGIE)
2010 - 2014
Researcher, Analyst
Boeing
2009 - 2010
Project Manager
Education
University of Portland
2006 - 2010
Bachelor's in Technology Management
Skills
AI/ML
AWS
CI/CD
GCS
GraphQL
Kubernetes
LLMs
Next.js
Node.js
OpenAI
PostgreSQL
PWAs
Pytorch
React
Redis
TypeScript
Stripe
WebRTC
WebSockets