I'm Matthew Erik Collins. I run product at a transportation company, where I spend my days figuring out how to make complex logistics software actually work for the people who use it. I've been building software for over 20 years — started as a developer, still code when I can, but my work now lives at the intersection of product strategy, team leadership, and getting things shipped.
I'm also building Kulchr, an open-source personal AI assistant platform. The idea is simple: your AI tools should work across devices, remember context, and not lock you into one vendor. I'm building it in the open and writing about the process here.
This site is where I write about product work, software, and AI — the stuff I'm learning, the problems I'm solving, and the opinions I'm forming along the way. Some of it will be useful. Some of it will just be me thinking out loud. Either way, I'd rather put it out there than keep it in a notebook.
Outside of work, I'm a husband and father. I run, meditate, read too much non-fiction, and journal more than most people would consider normal.