Port Moody, British Columbia

Matt Mehrpak

Software engineer & solutions architect. I build the boring, reliable machinery that lets other people do the interesting stuff.

Microsoft Certified Cloud Engineer

I was writing software long before it was fashionable to bolt "AI" onto everything. I design and build systems end to end - from the database schema up to the button someone actually clicks: Angular, React, C#, .NET, TypeScript, NestJS, and SQL, deployed on Microsoft cloud. I like problems where the hard part isn't the code, it's understanding how the work really gets done before you dare model it.

I run Avid Lab Technology, a one-person software shop out of Port Moody. Some of my best ideas start away from the keyboard - one of them began with my wife's meatball recipe and ended with me writing a whole kitchen-booking platform. (Read the whole thing here.)

What I build

Avid Lab Technology - my software studio - AI-powered tools that take admin off small businesses' plates
beautyOS - AI voice receptionist for any appointment-driven business - answers every call 24/7, books, and never misses a lead
CommiShare - booking & operations platform for shared commissary kitchens
Assessment Analyst - GAMA (Esri) - contributed as a software developer to Esri's cloud, ArcGIS-based mass-appraisal platform that helps assessment authorities produce fairer, more defensible property valuations

Writing

How CommiShare was born - meatballs, mild social anxiety, and the one rule that built an app
The call nobody could answer - how beautyOS came to be, and why it was never only about salons

Off the clock

Pen-and-ink caricature of Matt cooking Italian food in his kitchen, with a football at his feet, Match and World Soccer magazines, and a Popular Electronics project on the counter.

Cooking comes first - above all the rest. I cook Italian, properly and patiently, and I bake, which is really just engineering you're allowed to eat: precise, unforgiving, and deeply satisfying the moment it works. Give me a slow Sunday and a hot oven and I'm a happy man.

Before the keyboard, there was a ball. I played football for years - indoor and outdoor - and grew up reading Match and World Soccer, following Serie A through its golden age: Ronaldo when he was unplayable, Zidane making it look like art, and Maldini at the back like a locked door. When I wasn't chasing a ball or a football magazine, I was hunting down a copy of Popular Electronics to build something on the kitchen table. That habit never left me - it just grew up and turned into a career.

Cover of Match magazine from November 1997 featuring a young David Beckham. — Match, November 1997. Pocket money went here first, lunch second.

Six vintage EKI electronics project kits in sealed bags, including an LED blinker, robot blinker and nerve tester. — Kitchen-table kits. Same loop as today: read the schematic, build it, find out why it doesn't work.

But the oven still wins. It always did.

Get in touch

Need software built, an AI receptionist answering your phones, or a tangled system made sane? Tell me a little about it and I'll get back to you.

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Where I am

Port Moody, BC · Pacific time (UTC−8/−7)
Close enough to the mountains to see them, close enough to the ocean to hear it.