Matthew Kyawmyint
Hi, I'm Matthew (it's pronounced "Jaw-me-int"). I'm a founding engineer at Protagonist, building AI for colleges and their students. Before this I helped build and scale products at AWS and a variety of startups. I live in Davis, California, and you can reach me at hi@matthewkyawmyint.com.
Outside work I take my family camping at California state parks, play strategy games like Crusader Kings, and build small tools for myself, such as a workout log and a script that watches for concert tickets near Davis.
Work
- Protagonist at Humanist Venture Studio, 2025 to nowFounding engineer.
- Workmaps, 2024 to 2025Founding engineer across frontend, backend, AI features and data pipelines, making job searching easier and more personal.
- Everest AI, 2022 to 2024Senior engineer. Led a team building web and mobile products with AI features, and revamped our stack and deploy tooling.
- Amazon Web Services, 2017 to 2022Software engineer on the AWS Console, backend and React. Started as an intern building a machine-learning recommendation feature for DynamoDB and RDS users.
Also contract work for early-stage AI startups, the term-life flows at Ethos, and Japa, a smart-parking startup I cofounded at UC Davis. Proud to see it still helping people park today.
Say hi
If you're into EdTech, AI, or just want to talk about building meaningful products, email me at hi@matthewkyawmyint.com. I'm also on LinkedIn.