MIT MBAn · Cambridge, MA

Matthieu Hakim

Builder at the intersection of AI infrastructure and practical tooling. I design systems that think, adapt, and prove their integrity.

3.97
CGPA — McGill Engineering
4
Years shipping real products
3
Languages spoken natively or near-natively
Agentic Systems ML / NLP Backend Eng. Graph Databases Python LangGraph AWS Startup Builder
About

Software engineer turned
AI systems architect

I started with a screwdriver — four years building production software at Lyft, early-stage startups, and enterprise clients taught me that the best engineering is invisible.

Today I'm at MIT Sloan, where I'm blending that engineering rigour with a fascination for the new wave of autonomous AI: agents that reason, tools that trust, and systems that can explain themselves.

My current obsession is agentic infrastructure — specifically the hard problems of policy enforcement, human oversight, and cryptographic accountability in multi-agent pipelines.

Outside code: intramural soccer captain, speaker of French, Arabic, and Spanish, and long-time side-project builder (hello, Commando Bob on the Play Store).

Based in Boston / NYC
Graduating August 2026
Open to Full-time roles as FDE, AI Engineering & ML

Experience

07 roles
2026
Analytics Capstone
AI Knowledge Graph Engineer
MIT · Level Agency
Architecting a Semantic Knowledge Graph that unifies company data — Zoom, Slack, Google Drive — into a centralized brain for autonomous AI agents. Running end-user discovery and live feedback loops to iteratively sharpen retrieval accuracy.
Python Neo4j LangGraph OpenAI
2026
Gen AI Lab
Autonomous Agent Developer
MIT · Cartier
Built a self-healing web scraping agent that monitors competitor sites and adapts to HTML changes using LLM-driven navigation — cutting data collection from days to minutes. Also designed a competitive intelligence pipeline surfacing market signals from unstructured media.
Google ADK Playwright Firecrawl Vertex AI
2025
Analytics Lab
ML Engineer
MIT · MAPFRE Insurance
Built a probabilistic churn-prediction model delivering 98% accuracy and a 330% boost in customer conversion rate. Presented findings directly to the Gen AI Lead.
Python Julia Machine Learning
2024–2025
CTO & Co-founder
LGS Tech — Early-Stage Startup
Led engineering for a fire-safety alerting app, coordinating software–hardware integration and conducting customer discovery with firefighters and property developers to ruthlessly prioritize the highest-impact features.
React Node.js Python IoT
2024
Summer
Full-Stack Developer Intern
Fadel — NYC
Rebuilt a non-functional legacy application into a live Box Apps solution, integrating rights tracking with file management and deploying to AWS. Presented outcomes to both CEO and CTO.
Angular Express AWS Bootstrap
2023–2024
Founder & Full-Stack Developer
Wing Write — Montreal
Built and launched an AI writing tool that helped 1,000+ users craft personalized cold emails and outreach — generating over 10,000 emails in total. Powered by OpenAI's API, with a full-stack Java / JavaScript / SQL backend. Shipped a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions that cut deployment time by 70%.
OpenAI API Java JavaScript SQL GitHub Actions
2022
Summer
Backend Developer Intern
Lyft Urban Solutions — Montreal
Optimized REST APIs and integrated IoT smart-lock controls, contributing to a 95% usage surge at the Madrid e-bike launch. Engineered QR-code bike unlock for 185K+ subscribers and accelerated code deployments by 30% through Agile reviews.
Java JUnit REST APIs IoT

Projects

Selected work
02
DESA — Dynamic Emotional State Architecture
NLP Research · MIT 6.8610
Replaced static persona prompts with a continuously updating VAD emotional state vector. LoRA adapter blending shifts model behavior in real-time, enabling more naturalistic, contextually appropriate LLM responses.
PyTorch LoRA HuggingFace VAD Vectors
02
03
Semantic Knowledge Graph
MIT × Level Agency Capstone
Graph-native brain for enterprise AI agents — ingesting Zoom transcripts, Slack threads, and Google Drive documents into a unified Neo4j knowledge graph enabling multi-hop reasoning across company knowledge.
Neo4j Cypher LangGraph OpenAI
03
03b
Cartier Intelligence Agent
MIT Gen AI Lab · 2026
Self-healing web scraping agent + competitive intelligence pipeline for a luxury goods client. LLM-driven navigation adapts to HTML changes; entity recognition surfaces market signals from unstructured media.
Google ADK Playwright Firecrawl Vertex AI
03b
04
Wing Write
Startup · 2023–2024
AI-powered writing tool for cold emails and outreach. 1,000+ users, 10,000+ emails generated. Full-stack Java/JS/SQL with OpenAI API and a CI/CD pipeline that cut deploy time by 70%.
OpenAI API Java JavaScript SQL GitHub Actions
04
05
Commando Bob
Mobile Game · 2020
Published mobile game on the Google Play Store — built solo in Unity with C#. Included level design, enemy AI, and animations. A first foray into shipping a real product to real users.
Unity C# Game Design Android
05

Skills &
Tools

Languages
Python Java JavaScript SQL Cypher Julia R C / C++ C#
AI / ML
LangGraph Google ADK PyTorch HuggingFace LoRA Fine-tuning OpenAI API Vertex AI Gurobi
Infrastructure & Frameworks
AWS Docker Neo4j React.js Node.js Spring Angular GitHub Actions

Education

Current
MIT Sloan
Master of Business Analytics · Operations Research Center · 2025–2026
Natural Language Processing · Machine Learning · Deep Learning · Optimization Methods · Agentic Systems
McGill University
Bachelor of Software Engineering · 2020–2024
CGPA 3.97 / 4.0  ·  Four-time Dean's Honour List  ·  Faculty Engineering Scholarship
Certifications
AWS Cloud Practitioner
AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Languages
French
Native
Arabic
Native
Spanish
Intermediate
English
Fluent

Let's build
something
worth building.

I'm graduating August 2026 and open to full-time roles in AI infrastructure, ML engineering, or agentic systems. If you're working on something ambitious, let's talk.