Principal Consultant
Matt Harris
Mission-driven parent orgs invest in technical bets. I make those bets ship.
Twenty years across Twitter's developer platform, Uber ATG's autonomy program, and Color's platform engineering. Now working with foundations and research-driven parent organizations at the seam where investment thesis meets execution vehicle.
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Areas of Focus
Seed-and-Graduate Advisory
Shaping technical bets at the parent level, running research partnerships, standardizing what's worth standardizing, then handing programs to their long-term owners.
Execution-Vehicle Stand-Up
Interim technical leadership when a mission-driven parent's investment thesis needs an operator to make the work ship. Time-boxed, scope-clear.
AI Governance at Foundation Altitude
Trust and safety from a funder's perspective, not an enterprise buyer's. Model cards, memory system standards, incident-tracking frameworks.
Board & Nonprofit Technology Governance
Technology committee advisory and board-level tech strategy where technology isn't the point but is load-bearing.
Career
Built the developer platform that made Twitter usable for developers.
Uber ATG
2015–2021Led autonomy product plus engineering security as self-driving moved from research toward road.
Color Health
2021–2022Built platform engineering through pandemic-scale growth.
ion Consulting
2022–PresentShape and seed technical bets at the parent level for foundations and mission-driven parent organizations. Stand up the execution vehicles that ship them.
Board Leadership
- —Board Chair, 9/11 National Memorial Trail
- —Board Member, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
- —Board Member, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
- —Board Member, Arsenal Family & Children's Center
- —Board Chair, Allegheny Mountain LMSC