# Matthew Shwery

> Building Cursor

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/matthewshwery

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Cursor
Jan 2025 – Present

### Co-Founder, CTO / CPO @ Koala
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
Served as founding CTO, leading the initial build and technical direction. Shifted focus to product strategy, user experience, and growth as CPO from March 2025 onward.

Koala is an end-to-end pipeline generation engine. Give reps a single-pane-of-glass for account prioritization, deep research, and identifying buying committees.

### Senior Principal Software Engineer @ Segment
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Remote

### Principal Software Engineer @ Segment
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

### Staff Software Engineer @ Segment
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Senior Engineering Manager @ Segment
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020

### Engineering Manager @ Segment
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020

### Senior Product Engineer @ Segment
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018

### Executive Director of Engineering @ Lucid, LLC
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | New Orleans, Louisiana
Led 2 small teams (UI Engineering + Salesforce Engineering) driving the core customer experience in our product, designed and built single-tenant SSO with industry standards (OpenID Connect) for our internal products (which increased our velocity to ship prototypes and build new product domains), and prototyped entirely new products across the stack in an iterative way.

### Director of Engineering @ Lucid, LLC
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | New Orleans
Spearheaded an internal design system and component library for our UI Engineering team to quickly ship a consistent brand experience across our products. Ushered adoption of a GraphQL API. Led our UI Engineering team, growing the team and contributed as a core interviewer for engineering hires across the org. Contributed partially as an IC Full Stack Engineer.

### Frontend Developer @ Lucid, LLC
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | New Orleans
Joined Lucid early as one of the first few engineering employees, and first UI-focused hire. I helped grow the team and develop best practices for consistent and customer-driven UX. I was a strong advocate for bringing design to the organization. In addition to spearheading the UI of Lucid's products, I also introduced our team to git and helped establish safer, faster, and version controlled processes for the development cycle.

### Web Developer & Design Consultant @ Self-Employed
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 | Greater New Orleans Area
Crafted a diverse range of web applications and MVP applications, primarily for startups and local businesses. Mostly Ruby/Rails, Node.js, Postgres, JavaScript.

### Web Developer & Designer @ VoteIt
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | New Orleans, Louisiana
Joined this startup to focus on building better UI/UX for a real-time decision-making platform, and jumped into full-stack Ruby/Rails development shortly after. The startup shut down in October 2012.

### Frontend Developer @ Squarefour Digital Media
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | New Orleans, Louisiana

### Manager @ Mars Cafe
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 | Des Moines, Iowa
Lead a team of well-trained baristas, focused on making amazing coffee, serving locally-sourced goods and building community.


## Education
### B.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication
Iowa State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mshwery
- Portfolio: http://mattshwery.com
- Portfolio: http://getminimalist.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-11