Matt Gideon is a trading-card entrepreneur and student with a decade of hands-on experience building, buying, and selling high-value collectibles across Sports Cards, Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh. He co-founded and operated retail locations, managed event booths, and oversaw over $1M in annual inventory while running end-to-end operations from hiring to marketing. Complementing his commerce background, he’s contributed backend code to an open-source multimodal AI chatbot project—implementing Baidu Cloud content-moderation middleware—which demonstrates practical engineering skills in API integration and middleware design. Matt pairs deep market intuition and data-driven pricing experience (Excel/JSON catalog work) with on-the-ground logistics and IT support abilities, making him well-suited to help companies expand into the collectibles space with both product and operational insight.
3 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Jack E Singley Academy
Contributions:1 release, 9 reviews, 11 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the AI chat bot, specifically implementing content moderation features using the Baidu Cloud service. Their work involved creating a middleware for text censorship, integrating the Baidu Cloud API, and handling the responses. They also integrated the Baidu Cloud check into the main bot logic and made configuration changes to enable and customize the content moderation.
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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