01
Smartleaf
FINANCIAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER CO-OPBuilt infrastructure for enterprise tax-loss harvesting and portfolio trading, including a dynamically tuned tax-harvesting algorithm and enterprise-wide testing infrastructure.
BOSTON, MAJUL - DEC 2026
SOFTWARE / AGENTS / RESEARCH
Matthew
Birov.
MB / SELECT A THREAD01 / 04
Financial software engineering at Smartleaf. Tax-loss harvesting systems, portfolio trading infrastructure and testing at enterprise scale.
SEATTLE / BOSTONSCROLL TO EXPLORE ↓01 / 04
01 / EXPERIENCE
Building where
it matters.
From financial infrastructure to systems that evaluate and coordinate AI agents.
02
Afterquery Experts
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EXPERTDesigned evaluation suites and scoring rubrics for agentic coding tasks. Studied failure modes and calibrated grading consistency across domains.
FRONTIER MODEL EVALUATIONJUN 2026
03
Vektor
FOUNDER & CEOBuilt verification infrastructure for ultra-long-horizon agent tasks, catching 39% more false-positive rewards than a Claude Opus 4.8 LLM-judge baseline and six-figure contract proposals from frontier AI labs.
VEKTOR-TECHNOLOGIES.COM ↗MAR - JUN 2026
04
Swarm
AGENT MARKETPLACECreated an open marketplace for specialized AI agents to bid, execute in parallel and build reputation through evaluation. Its orchestrator automatically re-bid failed tasks.
INVITATIONAL YC × BROWSER USE HACKATHONFEB - MAR 2026
05
Independent projects
AGENTIC AI & ALGORITHMSBuilt agentic AI and algorithmic programming systems independently and with teams.
ENGINEERINGAUG 2024 - JAN 2026
THE THREAD THROUGH IT ALL
Make intelligent systems measurable. Make useful systems real.
DESIGNBUILDVERIFYSHIP
02 / RESEARCH
Curiosity,
in motion.
Experiments that cross optimization, machine learning and real-time interaction.
R / 012025
OPTIMIZATION / DEEP LEARNING
HyperQ optimizer
Developed PyTorch models that converged 14-23% faster and reached 0.4-0.6% higher accuracy than AdamW on ImageNet100 across transformer architectures. Listed as an incoming NeurIPS 2026 submission.
APR - SEP 2025↗
R / 022025
HUMAN-AI INTERACTION / WEBGL
Emotional symbiosis
Authored a NeurIPS 2025 Creative AI Track submission on a browser-based framework for bidirectional human-AI emotional interaction, rendering 6,000 particles at 60fps and 33 emotional states across four personas.
SEP 2025↗
03 / RECOGNITION
Selected
signals.
Milestones across entrepreneurship, building and mathematics.
01 / STARTUPS
Y Combinator S26
Selected for an in-person interview, top 1% of applicants.
✳02 / STARTUPS
Z Fellows
Selected for the final round, listed with a sub-1% acceptance rate.
✳03 / MATHEMATICS
National AIME Qualifier
Top ~5% nationally.
✳04 / ACADEMICS
National Merit Commended Scholar
Top 1% nationally.
✳04 / FOUNDATION
The toolkit
behind it.
Computer science and business administration at Northeastern University, Khoury College of Computer Science. Anticipated graduation June 2028.
COURSEWORK / Fundamentals of Computer Science I & II · Object-Oriented Design · Data Structures & Algorithms
SKILLS & SYSTEMS
LANGUAGES
Java · Python · TypeScript · JavaScript · SQL · HTML/CSS
ML / AI
PyTorch · TensorFlow · scikit-learn · Transformers · CNNs · Reinforcement Learning · Reward Modeling & Verification
TOOLS
Claude Code · GitHub Copilot · Cursor · VS Code · pandas · NumPy · Ray · vLLM · DeepSpeed · Weights & Biases · Docker · Git · PostgreSQL · MySQL · asyncio