About Me
Engineering Leader - Meta
Founder - Akorda Technical Solutions
Background
Matt Cielecki is an Engineering Leader at Meta, and formerly the CTO at JibJab, a private equity–backed digital media company with over $25–30M in annual revenue and 1M+ paying subscribers. He is also the founder of Akorda Technical Solutions, a technical advisory and consulting company. Matt has over 15 years of experience in software, being a part of high-caliber teams both as an individual contributor and leader.
He is a product-focused technologist, making a major impact at the intersection of AI and consumer software. A builder at heart, his work has reached billions of users, from creating one of the first viral Starcraft 2 mods at Rutgers, which was featured and acknowledged by Blizzard Entertainment, to contributing to an Emmy-winning iOS app (StoryBots), to helping JibJab take the stage at Apple’s WWDC keynote.
Most recently, he spearheaded an AI-powered face-morphing platform that delivers photorealistic face swaps in under one second, powering 5M+ swaps annually. Matt combines deep technical expertise with an instinct for engaging, scalable consumer experiences, making him an emerging executive leader ready to shape the next wave of AI-driven consumer products.
When he is not coding, you can find him exploring new technologies, playing music, video games, or sharing his knowledge through writing and mentoring.
Skills & Technologies
AI
- Agents
- RAG
- Langchain
- OpenAI API
- MidJourney
- Picsi.ai
Frontend
- React / Next.js
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- HTML / CSS
- iOS & Android
Backend
- Node.js
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- DynamoDB
- Serverless
- .NET
Tools
- Git
- VS Code & Cursor
- Docker
- AWS & GCP
- Vercel
Design
- Figma
- Adobe XD
- v0.dev
- Sketch
- UI/UX Design
- Prototyping
Experience
Engineering Manager
2025 - PresentLeading an engineering team responsible for building the next generation of products for the Meta family of apps.
CTO
2019 - 2025Leading JibJab's technology organization, overseeing product development, infrastructure, and engineering teams while driving technical strategy and innovation.
- Launched Starring You AI
- Successful Acquisition of ReadYourStory
- Launched JibJab Invites
Sr. Director of Engineering
2018 - 2019Lead Mark Cuban's messaging app, Dust, as a Sr. Director of Engineering
- Co-Author of our provisional patent "Messaging System and Method Utilizing Volatile Memory."
- Integration of full CI/CD pipeline, decrasing development cycle time
- Lead migration of Dust 4 to Dust 5, coordinating backend migrations with iOS and Android app launches
Sr. Engineering Manager
2015 - 2017Lead the mobile team at JibJab, launching multiple products and winning multiple awards
- The Storybots iOS app won a 2017 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Interactive Media - Enhancement to a Daytime Program, and is a 2017 Webby Award Honoree
- The JibJab iOS app was presented at the Apple WWDC 2016 keynote by Craig Federighi
- Launched a new products Gomoji, JibJab Camera, and GifGab, which were all featured in the App Store by Apple
Software Engineer
2013 - 2015Work with a large development team, project managers, and clients, to build and maintain a large-scale web application for one of the largest SaaS companies in the world, that has over 22 million users
- Winner of Cornerstone's 2015 Hackathon, which included 60+ teams from around the world
- Selected to be on CI/CD and Coding standards councils
- 70-minute talk on the past, present, and future of Artificial Intelligence.
Software Engineer
2012 - 2013Develop, and Design Class III and Class II machines, wide-area progressives, and specialty games.
- Launched several new Class III and Class II machines video slot machines, played by millions of people in Las Vegas casinos
Software Engineer
2011 - 2012Work within the Product Development and Support team to design, develop and test new product functionality
- Selected to be on Gatekeeper team, which is the team that reviews all new C++ code that is submitted to the codebase