Summary
Matt Hamilton is a seasoned engineering and product leader with 14 years of experience building consumer fintech and AI-driven products from startup scrappy to $200M+ ARR marketplaces. Currently Head of Product & Engineering at Hatz AI while founding Toy Boat and co-running realnice, he blends hands-on engineering roots (iOS, backend) from early Venmo days with strategic product leadership across companies like Stash, Bank Novo, and Republic. He has a track record of launching platform APIs, scaling money movement to billions/month, and shipping mobile rewrites and banking products while establishing reproducible QA and release processes. Comfortable toggling between architecture, hiring and coaching, and customer-driven design, Matt also does fractional AI work designing candidate-matching and lead-generation systems—an indication he pairs product instincts with applied ML infrastructure. Based in New York, he brings entrepreneurial curiosity and a history of relaunching and redesigning consumer experiences that measurably boost engagement.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Montclair High School
BS Materials Science Engineering, BS Materials Science Engineering at Columbia Engineering