Matt Harris | AI & FinServ ❄️ & Academia

I bridge the gap between mission-critical enterprise architecture, Quantitative Archaeology, and cademic spatial research.

• Current Project Focus: Architecting Agentic Systems to solve complex problems in spatial cognition and human interaction.
• Teaching: Adjunct Professor @ UPenn MUSA (Graduate Spatial ML/AI & Public Policy).
• Expertise: Deep roots in Financial Services data products and high-performance Snowflake ❄️ for Financial Services.

🛠️ My Tech Toolkit

| Category | Tools | | :--- | :--- | | AI-First Dev | Claude Code, Gemini, Cursor, Snowflake Cortex | | Data & Logic | SQL (Snowflake), Python, JavaScript, R | | Spatial Stack | Apache Sedona, sf/stars, PostGIS | | The AI Journey | From C++ SLPs & Deep Learning (YOLO!) to NLP, LLMs, and Agents |

🔭 Research & Interests

• Spatial Cognition: Understanding how humans perceive and interact over physical space.
• Distributed Compute: Scaling spatial joins and featurization within cloud-native architectures.
• Agentic Workflows: Moving beyond simple prompting to autonomous, multi-step data reasoning.

💬 Let's Connect

• LinkedIn (most current): Matthew D. Harris
• Web: matthewdharris.com
• Twitter: @md_harris
• Email: matthew.harris@micadatalabs.com
• Pronouns: he/him or they/them

⚡ Fun Fact: I once made it to the regional finals in the Super Mario Brothers 2 🍄 World Championship! (Still the best game in the series.)