Matt G. Wagner

Owner, Chief Technology Officer

Red Leg Dev, LLC

• Build production agentic AI systems on Claude, Claude Code, custom MCP servers, and agent skills — automating correspondence, research, ops, and project coordination that clients had handled manually for years
• Architect and launch custom SaaS products from zero to paying customers for more than a dozen startups and small businesses
• Provide fractional CTO leadership, AI integration consulting, and product strategy to founders deciding where agents fit in their business
• Lead developers, designers, and product managers through full product lifecycles

Technical Co-Founder

IdeaBloom.io

• Co-founded AI-native platform for structured group decision-making — collects scattered input from a team and turns it into a ranked, shared plan in a single session
• Architect agentic AI pipelines for synthesis, clustering, and scoring that replace hours of manual analysis; originally applied to startup idea validation, now to nonprofit leadership alignment
• Build the full-stack SaaS on Next.js, Supabase, and OpenAI with integrated billing and user onboarding

Founding Engineer

Readerful

• Founding engineer on an author-growth platform helping fiction authors build readerships through engagement and discovery tooling
• Architect and ship the full Next.js and Supabase stack on Cloudflare Workers — admin analytics, publisher dashboards, magic-link auth, and email infrastructure
• Partner with founders to translate author-growth strategy into production features, from MVP scoping through iteration with paying customers

Technical Co-Founder

JobGuruAI

• Co-founded AI-first SaaS product for job seekers — architected from zero to MVP with LLM-powered resume optimization, interview prep, and job matching
• Designed the business model and go-to-market strategy for a new AI-native product category
• Integrated OpenAI APIs with structured output parsing to deliver personalized career guidance

Technical Co-Founder

WOTC Genius (https://wotcgenius.com)

• Co-founded SaaS platform for Work Opportunity Tax Credit screening and processing
• Architected automated workflow for applicant screening, documentation, and compliance
• Designed the interface used by small and midsize businesses to manage the WOTC process end-to-end

Founder

WriteMyNCOER.com

• Solo-founded AI-powered B2C SaaS generating $4,200+ in revenue — one of the earliest GPT-integrated products in the military space (launched March 2023)
• Engineer LLM prompts and structured output pipelines that generate Army-compliant evaluation narratives from minimal user input
• Own the entire product lifecycle: AI integration, Stripe billing, Next.js frontend, marketing, and customer support

Principal Architect

InContext Solutions - Chicago, IL

• Chair the Architecture Review Board, driving platform scalability, API design, and AI integration strategy
• Design the background processing engine that handles resource-intensive 3D rendering and data pipelines
• Lead the Information Security team and Business Continuity Planning program
• Mentor developers across experience levels on modern architecture patterns

Partner, Chief Technology Officer

Esferas.io

• Co-founded B2B SaaS product scaling to $775K+ lifetime revenue and $12K+ MRR with hundreds of paying subscribers
• Architect and operate a high-throughput platform handling 33M+ API requests per month on .NET, Cosmos DB, and Redis
• Design the third-party API integration layer and webhook infrastructure powering core product automation
• Drive the product roadmap from MVP to stable, revenue-generating platform

Enterprise Architect / Principal Software Engineer

CertiPay - Winter Haven, FL

• Led implementation of next-generation payroll and HR SaaS serving thousands of businesses
• Recruited, interviewed, and mentored the development team across multiple product lines
• Architected API-first platform enabling third-party integrations and automated workflows
• Organized and led internal tech talks on software engineering practice

Previous Positions

Various Companies

• Principal Software Engineer at MercuryWorks (August 2017 - April 2020)
• Lead Software Engineer at DealerTrack Technologies (2012 - October 2014)
• Developer at MIDFLORIDA Credit Union (December 2011 - July 2012)
• Software Engineer at AutoLoop (August 2010 - September 2011)
• Web Applications Developer at JPMorganChase (June 2008 - August 2010)

MOS 13A, Field Artillery Officer

U.S. Army, Florida Army National Guard

• Commanded Headquarters and Headquarters Battery for HIMARS battalion, leading 110+ Soldiers
• Commanded M777A2 artillery battery with 85+ Soldiers and $50mm+ of equipment
• Led coordination during five major hurricanes and two presidential inaugurations
• Roles included Commander, Executive Officer, Platoon Leader, and Fire Direction Officer
• NATO Allied Rapid Response Cell exercise experience in Germany
• Active U.S. Government Security Clearance

B.S. Computer Information Systems

University of South Florida - Tampa, FL

• Florida Academic Scholars - Bright Futures Scholarship recipient
• Men's Varsity Baseball, 2006 - 2007

Military Training

• Common Faculty Development - Instructor Course, Camp Blanding, FL (November 2024)
• Field Artillery Captain's Career Course, Fort Sill, OK (2017-2019)
• Field Artillery Basic Officer Leadership Course, Fort Sill, OK (2014)
• Officer Candidate School, Florida Regional Training Institute (2012, 2013)
• Basic Combat Training, Fort Sill, OK (2011)
• FEMA: Fundamentals of Emergency Management and Leadership and Influence