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Montana Flynn

Montana Flynn

Distributed Systems Engineer & Technical Founder

Foster City, California, US
949 258 7058

Background


About

About

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.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Founder, MomentGenie

    Sep, 2025 - Present

    Building AI orchestration tools and personalized content systems.

    • 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.

  • Senior Software Engineer (First Full-time Hire), Mathpix

    Jul, 2018 - Aug, 20257 years 1 month

    Architected the core enterprise infrastructure for high-scale AI services.

    • 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.

  • Lead Engineer (First Engineer), gifs.com

    Dec, 2015 - Jun, 20182 years 6 months

    Led the 'chaos machine' at an early-stage video/AI startup.

    • 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.

  • Head of Product, Kong Inc. (formerly Mashape)

    Mar, 2013 - Jun, 20152 years 3 months

    Managed the product pivot and business scale of a major API platform.

    • 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 Experience

Projects Experience

  • montanaflynn/botctl

    - Present

    A process manager for autonomous AI agents with TUI and Web UI.

    • 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.

  • montanaflynn/stats

    - Present

    Comprehensive Golang statistics library.

    • 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

Skills

  • Engineering

    Golang

    AI Agent Orchestration

    Distributed Systems

    Event-Driven Architecture

    Database Schema Design (PostgreSQL/SQLite)

    CLI/TUI Design

  • Product & Business

    P&L Strategy

    Usage-Based Billing

    Workflow Automation

    Internal Platforms