SHARPSHARP INTELLIGENCE / MATT SHARP
I lead the work, build the systems,
and help you grow the team.
Startups bring me in to take responsibility for AI. From advising on the approach to writing the code and hiring the people who carry it forward.
UPLIFT TRAINING / DIRECTOR OF AI DEVELOPMENT
At Uplift, I lead the AI development behind immersive VR learning, bringing the systems and engineering team together to create new ways to learn.
Explore the client work ↓01 / THE WORK
AI development and team building at Uplift. Adaptive learning advisory with Neurova. Curriculum creation and teaching with AI Makerspace.
Course imagery: AI Makerspace AI MAKERSPACE / CURRICULUM & TEACHING
I created the AI FDE Certification curriculum. I also teach the Titanium Engineer program and have made updates to its curriculum.
Curriculum creation and teaching. Course imagery from AI Makerspace.
EXPERIMENTS & PLATFORM ENGINEERING
I’ve spent my career building with AI as its capabilities evolve. The throughline is hands-on engineering: exploring what’s possible and building the systems to make it work.
AI MAKERSPACE / GENERATIVE GAMEPLAY
The game writes itself as you play.
I built a game where AI writes the code during play. The experience evolves with each playthrough, taking a different direction every time you come back.
Explore the architecture ↗ SHOPIFY / ML PLATFORM ENGINEERING
At Shopify, I helped build the platform behind real-time machine learning predictions. Merlin connects model serving, deployment, and the data models need to respond to requests.
The published architecture covers Python serving layers, Kubernetes deployments, and integration with the model registry and feature store.
Read the engineering story ↗From my time on Shopify’s ML platform team. Article by Isaac Vidas, March 2023.
02 / OUT LOUD, AND IN WRITING
Serving models, evaluating them, and figuring out what happens when we give agents the keys.
AGENTS IN PRODUCTION / 2025
Prompt injection, agent permissions, and why removing friction can open the door to attackers.
Watch the talk ↗ESSAY / AI OWNERSHIP
An API call is easy. Owning your inference changes what you control: cost, performance, and your data.
Read the essay ↗FIELD NOTES / PRODUCTION ENGINEERING
Crashes, 93% memory use, and calls taking more than a second. A dependency overhaul cut memory use in half and brought latency below 300 ms.
Read the rescue story ↗
MLOPS COMMUNITY / AI IN PRODUCTION
What benchmarks measure, what they miss, and the problem with evaluating your way to the leaderboard.
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THE BOOK / MANNING
Co-authored with Christopher Brousseau. From language models to the systems that serve them.
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THE DATA PIONEER
Field notes from Matt Sharp03 / THE PERSON BEHIND THE WORK
I’m an AI engineer and consultant who works alongside founders to turn ambitious ideas into useful products. I help make the technical calls, build the systems, and bring together the people who will carry the work forward.
I run Sharp Intelligence, co-authored LLMs in Production, and teach a graduate-level LLMs and AI course at Utah State University.
Find me on LinkedIn ↗