Summary
Matthew Valancy is an engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience designing and testing intelligent systems across land, sea, air, and space domains. He builds end-to-end solutions from embedded firmware and custom PCBA test fixtures to cloud-connected monitoring, HIL simulators, and offline-first AI that moves between games, apps, and robots. As founder of Valpatel Software and an architect at Monarch, he has shipped software-defined product ecosystems and time-series driven diagnostics that improved robotics debugging and remote vehicle monitoring. His background at aerospace and automotive leaders (Astra, Joby, Tesla, Caterpillar) combines deep hardware design—enclosures, fault-injection, thermal and EMC work—with practical software tooling and manufacturing automation. Notably, he pursues “friendly independent machines,” gamifying AI development with his Graphlings and Tritium stacks to make adaptive, portable intelligence more approachable. Based in Dublin, CA, he blends maker-level fabrication skills with systems-thinking to deliver resilient, production-ready intelligent machines.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at California State University, Monterey Bay