Matt Kandler

Full-stack engineer / iOS developer / UX designer / Brooklyn, NY /

Crafting experiences designed to delight on every device.

I’m a full-stack developer and interface designer who started out studying mechanical engineering and robotics. I believe better designs are often simpler designs. Fast iteration trumps pixel perfection. Shipping and learning is more important than waiting and launching. Always talk to users, but the user isn’t always right.

These days I’m working as an engineer at Anthropic after a couple of years helping build 🏃‍♀️Runhouse🏠 — a tool for ML development. I spend occasional nights & weekends hacking on Orca 🫍 — an app for sharing memories and positivity (fka Happyfeed).

Words & Code

We’re Boiling Frogs in AI Slop /  Capturing Joy /  How to Use Llama 3 Self-Hosted /  Full-time after 10 Years of Freelancing /  Just Start: Thoughts on Ideas and Validation /  If You Build It, They Might Come /  I Am Not Creative /  Full-stack Designer /  Thrive in Ambiguity /  Duotone Image Filtering in Javascript [2014] /

Projects

Orca [active] 🫍 /  HoldOn - Vision Pro 🧿 /  Quixplore [dead] 📍 /  Dancing Sharks [∞] 🦈 /

Past client work

Anyscale / BarkBox / Care/of / Casper / Cityblock Health / Downtown Music / Gossamer / Managed by Q / Nike / Octave / Ollie / Smartwool / Spotify / Swehl /

Talk to me

matt@okorca.com ✉️ /  Linkedin /  X (Twitter) /

Tools

React / TypeScript / Next.js / Python / Swift / Objective C / React Native / Node / MongoDB / Kubernetes / Shopify / Rails / PostgreSQL / Sanity / Contentful / Figma / Sketch / Apple Notes / Moleskin /