Summary
Matthew Kenefick is a New York–based technical creative director and founder with two decades of experience building production-ready systems, tooling, and consumer products that bridge creative practice and engineering. As Lead Technical Director of Systems Intelligence at BUCK he prototypes AI-powered tools, architects scalable asset systems, and embeds new workflows across global teams, drawing on prior roles delivering innovation for Google, HBO, Meta, Microsoft and more. He founded ChalkySticks—built end-to-end as a one-person operation—where he shipped a proprietary browser physics engine, realtime ML-based table detection and a distributed AWS platform with a TypeScript SDK. Comfortable across frontend, backend, devops and ML, he also publishes practical plugins and VS Code/Figma extensions that reflect a focus on workflow optimization. Colleagues describe him as equal parts R&D scientist and hands-on builder who turns exploratory prototypes into productionized systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish