resume.json

{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Montana Flynn",
    "label": "Distributed Systems Engineer & Technical Founder",
    "image": "",
    "email": "montana949@gmail.com",
    "phone": "949 258 7058",
    "url": "https://github.com/montanaflynn",
    "summary": "Product-minded 'First Engineer' specialist with a decade of experience building internal platforms and chaos-proof infrastructure. Expert at translating complex database schemas for engineers and P&L goals for VPs. I build tools for builders, including a popular Go stats library and a process manager for autonomous agents. Ready for Foster City.",
    "location": {
      "city": "Foster City",
      "countryCode": "US",
      "region": "California"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "GitHub",
        "username": "montanaflynn",
        "url": "https://github.com/montanaflynn"
      },
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "montanaflynn",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/montanaflynn"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "MomentGenie",
      "position": "Founder",
      "url": "https://botctl.dev",
      "startDate": "2025-09-01",
      "endDate": "Present",
      "summary": "Building AI orchestration tools and personalized content systems.",
      "highlights": [
        "Architected 'botctl', a declarative process manager for autonomous AI agents featuring a TUI dashboard, web UI, and SQLite persistence.",
        "Engineered a system that manages agent state (running/sleeping/paused) and session context, moving far beyond simple chatbot wrappers into infrastructure-level agentic workflows.",
        "Built the entire stack using Go, focusing on rapid deployment and developer experience—core to the Replit philosophy."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Mathpix",
      "position": "Senior Software Engineer (First Full-time Hire)",
      "url": "https://mathpix.com",
      "startDate": "2018-07-01",
      "endDate": "2025-08-01",
      "summary": "Architected the core enterprise infrastructure for high-scale AI services.",
      "highlights": [
        "The Vendor Killer: Designed and implemented a custom usage-based billing system that eliminated reliance on expensive third-party enterprise providers.",
        "P&L Impact: Built the user registration and team-account logic that enabled scalable revenue growth through complex overage handling.",
        "Architected cross-platform API infrastructure and transitioned the backend to a high-throughput event-driven architecture.",
        "Engineered end-to-end data pipelines to ingest and manage sensitive user data for ML annotation teams."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "gifs.com",
      "position": "Lead Engineer (First Engineer)",
      "url": "https://gifs.com",
      "startDate": "2015-12-01",
      "endDate": "2018-06-01",
      "summary": "Led the 'chaos machine' at an early-stage video/AI startup.",
      "highlights": [
        "Led a team of 4 to build a comprehensive web-based video editing and effects pipeline using FFmpeg.",
        "Integrated computer vision models for automated highlight detection and face tracking, delivering a production-grade AI content engine."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Kong Inc. (formerly Mashape)",
      "position": "Head of Product",
      "url": "https://konghq.com",
      "startDate": "2013-03-01",
      "endDate": "2015-06-01",
      "summary": "Managed the product pivot and business scale of a major API platform.",
      "highlights": [
        "Human-Machine Translator: Bridged the gap between developer-facing database schemas and VP-level GTM workflows.",
        "Grew the user base from a few thousand to over 1 million by building internal admin and reporting tools for the business ops teams.",
        "Oversaw the transition from an API marketplace to a high-margin enterprise open-source model."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "montanaflynn/botctl",
      "description": "A process manager for autonomous AI agents with TUI and Web UI.",
      "url": "https://github.com/montanaflynn/botctl",
      "highlights": [
        "Features a declarative config system (BOT.md) and automated session preservation.",
        "Implements a 'Harness Loop' to manage agent turns, costs, and state persistence.",
        "Built-in TUI for real-time monitoring of agent fleets."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "montanaflynn/stats",
      "description": "Comprehensive Golang statistics library.",
      "url": "https://github.com/montanaflynn/stats",
      "highlights": [
        "3,000+ GitHub Stars.",
        "Used widely in the Go ecosystem for high-performance statistical analysis.",
        "Demonstrates deep technical proficiency in implementing low-level algorithms."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Engineering",
      "level": "Master",
      "keywords": [
        "Golang",
        "AI Agent Orchestration",
        "Distributed Systems",
        "Event-Driven Architecture",
        "Database Schema Design (PostgreSQL/SQLite)",
        "CLI/TUI Design"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Product & Business",
      "level": "Master",
      "keywords": [
        "P&L Strategy",
        "Usage-Based Billing",
        "Workflow Automation",
        "Internal Platforms"
      ]
    }
  ]
}