Founder of Hunger Mountain Intelligence, an independent technology practice based in Middlesex, Vermont. A software engineer with more than a decade across early-stage startups, State Street, and Google Cloud, working remotely with clients nationwide.
Matt Rkiouak has spent more than a decade building production software — systems that handle real traffic, real money, and real consequences. He began in network-performance engineering at OPNET Technologies, Riverbed Technology, and Dynatrace, each an early-stage company that reached a profitable exit.
He moved into enterprise engineering at State Street, where he led internal Kubernetes adoption, designed blockchain custody systems, and contributed to the Linux Foundation's Hyperledger Fabric, working across distributed, multinational teams. He was a founding engineer at Manetu, building a data-privacy platform end to end, and the first Staff+ engineer at Reify Health, where his work contributed to the company's Series C and D rounds and a valuation of roughly $5 billion.
At Google Cloud he launched the HD Voices text-to-speech API and architected Chirp 3, a foundation-model transcription system; both generated tens of millions of dollars in new revenue in their first year. He is now at ScalePost, leading engineering for media-monitoring and affiliate-attribution products.
He runs Hunger Mountain Intelligence from Middlesex, Vermont, where he serves on the town Budget Committee and built middlesexbudget.org, an independent budget-transparency tool. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Boston University.
Building production systems for large engineering organizations, including State Street and Google Cloud, working remotely across distributed teams.
Moved to Middlesex, Vermont (population roughly 1,800) and began working independently.
Started taking on automation, web, and IT projects, and built an independent budget-transparency site for the town.
Consolidated the consultancy, writing, civic work, and Ki Storygen under a single brand.
Each operates independently under the Hunger Mountain Intelligence brand.
Fixed-price automation, web, and IT consulting for small businesses and teams.
Visit consulting →An independent guide to the Middlesex town budget, with charts, comparisons, and open data.
Visit civic →Notes on technology and building software.
Read the blog →A story engine for worldbuilders: create characters and places, then generate stories that draw on them.
Open the labs →Work is explained in clear terms, without jargon.
Scope and cost are agreed before work begins. No hourly billing.
Projects are scoped to deliver; most focused work goes live in about a week.
Common Questions
If you're making a technical decision that will shape the next year of your business — choosing an approach, hiring engineers, rebuilding a system — and you don't have a senior technical leader in-house to gut-check it, that's when fractional help pays for itself. The cost of a wrong architecture or bad vendor choice dwarfs the cost of getting the right advice early.
For scoped projects, I work independently on defined deliverables with regular updates and a clear handoff. For retainers, I join your team directly: standups, pull requests, architecture decisions, mentoring. Communication is direct and frequent.
I work with startups and small teams as well as larger organizations. The fractional model exists because most growing companies need senior technical leadership but can't justify a full-time CTO. Projects are scoped to what you actually need.
For consulting inquiries, or questions about any of the projects above.