Zachary Matthews (Zac) is a Software Engineer — Production AI Infrastructure at NaviStone, based in West Chester, OH. He builds the behind-the-scenes systems that let humans and AI agents ship software together — from structured, governed delivery workflows to production AI infrastructure.
At NaviStone he designed and shipped The Forge, a governed AI orchestration platform running in production on AWS EKS: evaluation-driven hybrid RAG retrieval, multi-agent LLM pipelines with cost routing, knowledge-graph code intelligence, and the guardrails that make AI output trustworthy. He also conceived and leads Hubs of Knowledge, a company-wide permission-aware internal RAG initiative.
Miami University — M.S. Computer Science (2024) and B.S. Information Technology, Cum Laude (2023), completed in back-to-back years as an NSF S-STEM Scholar.
AI Systems Architecture, Distributed Systems, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Domain-Driven Design, TypeScript, Python, NestJS, .NET, Kubernetes, AWS, LLM evaluation, and platform engineering.
The Forge (governed AI delivery platform), Hubs of Knowledge (permission-aware internal RAG), and a code intelligence platform with eval-gated hybrid retrieval.