Matthew Raynor

My Journey

Software Engineer. Photographer. Writer.

After a diving accident left me paralyzed, I spent 30 months in long-term care. I turned a tiny meditation room into my classroom — studying software engineering, learning Spanish, and diving deep into Buddhism, Taoism, and breathwork to overcome what my body couldn't do.

Now I build AI-powered platforms, create aerial photography exhibited across the Hamptons, and write about resilience, spirituality, and transformation. My disability isn't my limitation — it's the reason I found my purpose.

My Development Projects

I'm a Software Engineer building agentic AI systems, computer vision pipelines, and full-stack platforms with React, TypeScript, Django, and modern cloud tooling.

My flagship projects: ToteTaxi — a luxury delivery platform with a LangGraph AI agent. StackJefe — a job search engine querying ATS APIs by tech stack. And my Photography Store — with an AI shopping assistant that searches photos semantically and visualizes prints on your wall.

Read the technical deep-dives: ToteTaxi's AI Agent, Building StackJefe, and AI Shopping Assistant.

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Featured Projects

Video walkthroughs of select projects. For my most recent AI/ML work—including RAG systems, semantic search, and production LLM integrations—see my LinkedIn or GitHub.

ToteTaxi.com

A full-stack luxury delivery and mini-moving platform with an AI customer service agent built on LangGraph and Claude — 6 tools, SSE streaming, and hand-off to a booking wizard with up to 22 pre-filled parameters. Dynamic pricing engine with geographic surcharges and weekend premiums. Stripe payments, Onfleet driver dispatch with real-time webhook tracking, dual auth, and 310+ backend tests.

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IDP EasyCapture

An enterprise computer vision system built for IDP Americas, a multinational corporation. Uses TensorFlow.js and MediaPipe for real-time image quality validation — detecting blur, lighting issues, face positioning, and document alignment before submission. Built with Next.js, Django REST Framework, and deployed as a production pipeline processing thousands of photos.

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AI Shopping Assistant

Have a question about my art? Ask my AI assistant — it knows every print in the store.

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Matthew Raynor Photography Store

A full e-commerce platform for fine art photography with an AI shopping assistant built on LangChain and Claude. Features pgvector semantic search, MiDaS depth estimation for "See It In Room" wall visualization, Claude Vision metadata generation, Stripe Checkout, and session-based cart persistence. Live at store.matthewraynor.com.

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StackJefe.com

A job search engine that lets developers search by the technologies they actually work with. Queries Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, and Workable APIs across 185K+ listings. Upload a resume and Claude AI parses your skills to generate personalized outreach. Power users connect GitHub to scan orgs by tech stack and score them 0–100.

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EJArtMover.net

A complete business management system for a fine art moving company based on Long Island, NY. Features work order tracking, client management, an interactive FullCalendar dashboard with color-coded job scheduling, PDF invoice generation, and AJAX-powered forms. Built with Django, PostgreSQL, Bootstrap 5, and WeasyPrint — deployed via Docker on Heroku.

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