I’m Matt Walker — an engineer, builder, and serial hobbyist based in the Baltimore/DC Metro area. I spend my professional life working at the intersection of data and AI, and the rest of it picking up hobbies faster than I can put them down.
Work
I help organizations build enterprise data platforms and AI-capable infrastructure — semantic data models, agentic automation, and the tooling that ties it all together. The goal is always the same: help businesses get the most value out of their technology, from analytics and machine learning to AI agents and beyond.
Hobbies
I’ve never been able to stick to just one thing. Over the years I’ve built and flown RC planes, brewed all-grain beer, restored tractors, modified cars for the drag strip, built a retro arcade cabinet, turned wooden bowls on a lathe, tumbled rocks, and dialed in a lawn care program that the neighbors quietly resent. These days it’s a lot of camping, traveling, and dragging the family to national parks. I row on a Concept2 for health and sanity, and I’ve been on the water enough to justify keeping a boat around.
Coffee found me later in life and I went all in. I roast single-origin beans at home, obsess over roast profiles, and brew every way I can — espresso on a Gagiuino-modded Gaggia Classic, pourovers on a V60, batch brews on a Moccamaster, and the trusty AeroPress for travel. Full coffee nerd, no apologies.