Matthew Mcclaskey is a founder and CEO with nearly two decades of technical leadership building secure, scalable systems for commercial, government, and defense customers. He founded Originary to tackle authenticity detection for AI-generated and altered media, positioning trust and provenance as infrastructure for enterprises, governments, and financial institutions. Previously co-founder and CTO of Kasm Technologies, he architected Kasm Workspaces, a widely adopted container streaming platform for VDI and remote browser isolation, and remains an active shareholder and contributor. His background spans software engineering, machine learning, networking, and cybersecurity, with hands-on roles shaping DevSecOps pipelines and assurance policies for large DoD ML programs. Matthew’s open-source contributions include performance and optimization work on KasmVNC, reflecting a pragmatic focus on low-level performance tuning as well as product strategy. Based in Charlotte, NC, he combines systems-level engineering experience with program management pedigree from satellite ground systems to modern AI authenticity solutions.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information Systems, Master's degree Information Systems at Bellevue University
Associates Electronics, Associates Electronics at Brown College
Modern VNC Server and client, web based and secure
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Performance Engineer
Contributions:12 releases, 4 reviews, 26 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the core functionality and performance optimization of the VNC server. They implemented self-benchmarking tools and SSE2 scaling optimizations, significantly improving the application's performance. The user also addressed several bugs related to the websocket and clipboard implementations. Additionally, they worked on tweaking WEBP encoding parameters and improving the handling of download file names.
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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Matthew Mcclaskey - Chief Executive Officer at Originary