ML & Enterprise Efficiency · Author · Practitioner since 2016
Open to architecture engagementsI like figuring out how to make things run themselves.
I'm Matt Fitzgerald — ML and enterprise efficiency architect and author of four books, including Live Life Automated, Geeking Out, Your Idea Workbook, and My Password Helper. I've spent the past decade building systems that handle the repetitive stuff: ML classifiers, NLP pipelines, orchestrated workflows, and the infrastructure glue that holds it all together.
Before going independent, I was DevOps Engineering Manager at Entara — where a ticket triage classifier I built won the Phoenix Award in 2024 — and before that at Abacus Group, where I worked on automating a lot of the manual overhead across a team managing 35,000 end users. I write about the things I build and the lessons that took a while to learn.
technical skills
What I build with.
Languages
AI & Automation
Infrastructure & Ops
track record
10 years of automation, in production.
Every entry is a real deployment. Every metric is real.
books
The frameworks, written down.
Live Life Automated
The Operator's Complete System for Eliminating Repetitive Work
Build systems that run your business without you.
A practitioner's handbook for operators, freelancers, and small business owners who are tired of doing the same thing twice. Live Life Automated walks you through the exact frameworks, tools, and mind...
Geeking Out
How to Turn Your Technical Skills into a Viable Business
The technical founder's guide to building a real business.
Most technical people are great at their craft and terrible at turning it into a business. Geeking Out bridges that gap — walking through the mindset shifts, pricing frameworks, client acquisition str...
Your Idea Workbook
A Framework for Validating Ideas Before You Build
Test your ideas before you invest time, money, or reputation.
Most ideas fail not because they were bad ideas, but because nobody validated them early enough. Your Idea Workbook is a structured framework for inventors, entrepreneurs, and operators who want to pr...
My Password Helper
A Practical Guide to Password Management
Understand password managers — and actually use one.
Password management is one of those problems everyone knows they should solve and almost nobody solves well. My Password Helper walks non-technical and technical readers through why password reuse is...
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