Open to Forward Deployed roles

I build tools customers
become obsessed with.

Forward Deployed Engineer in Dallas. Ten years shipping AI, cloud & cybersecurity products inside customer environments — at Deloitte by day, and on two live products of my own the rest of the time. Both are small enough to understand in an afternoon, and one of them is on the Chrome Web Store with more than 500 installs.

580%

ROI on a $20/month Claude Pro plan

Everything on this page — 368 merged PRs, two live products, a Chrome extension past 500 installs — came out of one engineer & one $20 Claude subscription. That is what forward deployment looks like to me: find the problem, ship the fix, make the tooling pay for itself. Imagine what I could do with your organization.

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Matt Duke

Activity

368 Merged PRs, 2026 405 merged all time
831 Contributions, last 12 months 377 commits · 431 PRs opened in 2026
54 Repositories 23 public · 31 private
2 Products live Chrome Web Store & in-house
Commits & PRs by month 2026

The graph starts in April because that is when I started shipping my own products rather than only client work. October is partial.

Client and internal work lives in private repositories and never reaches the public graph, so the figures above undercount the real output. Both products below are running: Sula is on the Chrome Web Store, Clapped is in-house tooling. Both sources are private.

Work

Sula

On the Chrome Web Store Consumer advocacy

A browser extension that fights the annoyance economy. It surfaces the real customer service contacts companies bury behind chatbot walls, shows how many days are left on your refund window, drafts the letter that gets the money back, and keeps track of the subscriptions quietly renewing on you. No tracking, no account, no LLM round-trip on the page you are reading.

Stack TypeScript · Manifest V3 Installs 500+ Tests 343 automated Billing LemonSqueezy licensing

Install for Chrome trysula.com
Why it exists Product thinking

Getting a refund is not hard because the rules are complicated. It is hard because companies make it expensive in time — the phone number is three menus deep, the chatbot is designed to outlast you, and the refund window closes while you are still being transferred.

Sula removes the cost rather than the rules. It sits quietly until you need it, then hands you the contact, the deadline, and the letter. Roughly 20 hours a year back, and nothing leaves your machine except a license check.

Clapped

Live Content pipeline

The hub for building YouTube shorts & long-form video. The visuals, the audio beds and the encode settings live in one place, so a piece goes from idea to an upload-ready MP4 in a couple of commands instead of an afternoon in an editor. A still or a short loop is held for the whole runtime rather than rendered frame by frame — which is why a ten-hour ambient video finishes on a laptop.

Stack ffmpeg · bash · no runtime deps Output YouTube-ready MP4, shorts to 10 hours Setup one command Repo Private — in-house tooling

Why it is a hub and not a script Rapid content

Rapid publishing falls apart on the boring parts. The loop is in one folder, the music is in another, the encode flags that survived YouTube's transcoder are in a terminal history somewhere, and the rights paperwork for the track is in an email. Clapped centralizes all of it, so the next video reuses the last one's decisions.

  • One general pipeline, plus purpose-built variants for a format worth repeating
  • A still image or a seamless loop, blur-filled from square to clean 16:9
  • Audio playlists concatenated and looped to hit an exact target duration
  • Two beds looping at different lengths, so ten hours never repeats on an audible cycle
  • A rights check before publishing that stays a human step — the tooling cannot verify a license

Stack

Languages

TypeScriptJavaScript PythonSQL HTML / CSS

Front end

ReactRedux React NativeNext.js TailwindMaterial UI Chrome Extensions (MV3)

AWS

LambdaDynamoDB S3Athena EMRGlue SESEventBridge API GatewayCloudFormation BedrockAmplify

Data & AI

Palantir FoundryAIP Builder DatabricksSnowflake SplunkCribl ETL pipelinesLLM integration

Platform

Node.jsExpress GraphQL / AppSyncSupabase / Postgres GitHub ActionsVercel StripeLemonSqueezy

Contact

If you are hiring someone to sit with the customer and build the thing, we should talk.

I am open to Forward Deployed Engineer and product roles — particularly the ones where the work happens inside the customer's environment rather than at arm's length from it. Fastest way to reach me is email.