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Career narrative, technical leadership, and executive experience

Mathew Dostal
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Technical Leadership at Scale

Currently Head of Engineering & Principal Architect at Frontiers Market, defining AI Strategy and pioneering an Agentic Operating Model for Edge AI and fintech infrastructure.

Costco
Architected mobile commerce platform for one of the world's largest retailers
Hertz
6,000% throughput improvement — 50 to 3,000+ RPS globally
Wayfair
Supply chain tools delivering $5M+ in operational savings
Chick-fil-A
$20M EY digital transformation — Sr. Solution Architect

Plus additional companies across enterprise, startup, and consulting engagements. View full history

Professional Experience

Head of Engineering & Principal Architect

Frontiers Market

January 2025Present1 yr 2 moFull-time

Leading the technical vision for an AI-driven platform digitizing the cattle industry. Orchestrating the convergence of Edge AI hardware, native mobile interfaces, and complex financial settlement systems.

  • Agentic Operating Model & Swarms: Architected and deployed full agentic swarms with multi-level orchestrators. Designed swarm leaders to act with minimalized context, automating complex decision-making pathways and significantly improving operational efficiency without human-in-the-loop bottlenecks.
  • Proprietary Edge AI Architecture: Engineered a custom, local-first NVR solution using Raspberry Pi clusters and local RTSP streams. Bypassed off-the-shelf limitations to optimize video stream processing and storage, significantly reducing cloud ingress costs while maintaining real-time livestock monitoring.
  • Fintech & Escrow System (clear.frontiersmarket.com): Designed and shipped a secure auction payment rail using Stripe Connect. Implemented "separate charges and transfers" logic to hold funds in escrow until delivery verification, replacing legacy check-based workflows with a compliant digital ledger.
  • Offline-First Native Mobile (app.frontiersmarket.com): Led the development of a native Swift application (Frontiers Market AI) capable of estimating cattle weight via on-device computer vision, ensuring functionality in low-connectivity rural environments via store-and-forward data sync.
  • Marketplace Engineering: Built the core registry and management application, enabling disparate ranchers to manage records, track livestock lineage, and transact securely using PostgreSQL for transactional integrity, utilizing Redis caching to optimize high-frequency inventory lookups.
Swift
TypeScript
Python
Next.js
Stripe Connect

Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Firefly Events Inc

September 2023Present2 yrs 6 moEntrepreneur / Side Project

Bootstrapped and launched a comprehensive event ecosystem comprising three distinct SaaS and consumer products processing 8,000+ daily events.

  • Agentic Swarm Orchestration: Architected autonomous agent swarms to manage complex cross-repository dependencies and third-party integrations (Stripe, Shippo, Maps). Automated critical workflows — from deep linking and website updates to sales tracking — optimizing API context usage and significantly reducing operational overhead.
  • "Shindig" (Consumer Discovery - https: //shindig.ff.events): Engineered a high-performance native mobile aggregator (iOS/Android) using Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP). Aggregates data from Ticketmaster, Eventbrite, and Facebook to serve as the "Travelocity of Events," utilizing geo-spatial queries for real-time discovery.
  • "Reserved" (Venue SaaS - https: //demo.reserved.ff.events): Architected a Next.js venue management platform backed by MongoDB, utilizing flexible schema design to power a complex dynamic rules engine. Solved for intricate NYC "block laws" by allowing venues to configure conditional booking logic (e.g., "Food purchase required for alcohol service").
  • "Tabletop Archive" (P2P Marketplace - https: //tta.games): Built a rental platform using Convex DB and Next.js. Implemented inventory state machines, Stripe financial logic, and fraud prevention using Shippo to manage asset depreciation and restrict shipping actions.
Kotlin
C#
Node.js
Python
TypeScript

Senior Software Engineer (Supply Chain Tech)

Wayfair

May 2022January 20252 yrs 8 moFull-time

Led critical initiatives within the supply chain technology group, driving operational efficiency for a global e-commerce giant.

  • $5M+ Operational Savings: Identified data flow inefficiencies in returns and inventory reconciliation. Architected an event-driven solution that saved the company over $5 million annually in lost inventory costs.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership and Platform Standardization: Acted as a technical mentor for junior engineers and collaborated across Product and Data Science teams to standardize API documentation and microservice deployment protocols.
  • Supply Chain Tooling: Built internal tools that rectified supply chain workflows, improved image pipelines, reduced fraud, and optimized day-to-day operations and mobile experience.
Python
C#
JavaScript
React
.NET

Sr. Solution Architect

Chick-fil-A

July 2021April 20229 moContract

Served as Sr. Solution Architect on a $20M digital transformation engagement for Chick-fil-A through EY. Directed a complete platform modernization architecting a resilient "Offline-First" POS ecosystem using Ditto to replicate data across tablets in low-connectivity drive-throughs and festivals, ensuring zero downtime and 100% operational continuity.

JavaScript
TypeScript
Java
React
Node.js

Manager Technology Consulting - Solution Architect

EY

November 2020April 20221 yr 5 moFull-time

Key architect for a boutique consultancy (Zilker Technology) that grew from 13 to 500+ employees before acquisition by EY. Led multi-million dollar engagements for Fortune 50 clients. Architected digital transformations, managed Statements of Work (SoWs), Project Change Requests (PCRs), staffing, and large engagements. Evaluated technologies, advised on technical architectures, and mentored team members.

JavaScript
Java
Python
TypeScript
Spring

Core Competencies

AI Strategy & Agentic

Agentic Swarms
Multi-Level Orchestrators
AI Operating Models
Computer Vision
Autonomous Workflows

Edge AI & IoT

Raspberry Pi
Custom NVR
RTSP
Computer Vision
Nvidia Jetsons
ClearBlade
Offline-First

Fintech & Payments

Stripe Connect
Escrow Systems
Fraud Prevention
Payment Rails
Compliance Engines

Enterprise Architecture

Microservices
Event-Driven
Redis
Kafka
Kubernetes
Docker
Ditto
PowerSync
Polyglot Persistence

Technical Leadership

100+ Dev Orgs
Hiring & Mentoring
Roadmap & Strategy
Stakeholder Management

Full Stack

Next.js
React
Node.js
Python
Swift
Kotlin (KMP)
TypeScript

Cloud & DevOps

AWS
Azure
GCP
CI/CD
Infrastructure as Code

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Neumont University

2007 - 2009

Certifications

IBM WebSphere Commerce V7.0 Application Development

Prometric

2011
IBM

TS: MS .NET Framework 3.5, ASP.NET Application Development

Prometric

2009
microsoft