Today we're welcoming Matthew Wang to Adapt as a product engineer (this is the only kind of engineer we hire!) working on integrations, tooling, and making Adapt even more amazing.
Matthew comes to us most recently from MCPJam, the open source MCP server testing tool with 2k GitHub stars and dozens of companies using it to build servers. Before that, he spent 2.5 years at Asana on the AI Studio product team.
In Matthew's first week, he shipped Proactive Agent Mode, allowing Adapt to proactively respond to messages it receives. The Intelligent Response System pulls context from conversation and company knowledge to decide whether or not to respond. It's already being used by Adapt customers.
About Matthew, in his words
How did you get into engineering?
Minecraft! I started learning how to program by writing Minecraft mods in Java way back. That introduced me into programming, and I've been hacking on stuff ever since. Then studying Computer Science at Duke, working as a SWE and building my own dev tools startup built up my experience.
Why Adapt, why now?
Spending the last year on MCPJam meant living inside the MCP ecosystem every day, working with teams building them, learning where MCP flourishes and where it has its limitations. Though I was married to MCP being the solution, there was always an itch to explore other ways to retrieve context. Adapt has been the clearest bet I've seen on solving that.
What's one part of your job you'd be relieved to never do again?
Trying to find an old ticket, email, message, that contains the answer to whatever problem I'm currently trying to figure out. Sometimes there'd be an issue I knew was solved a long time ago, but I can't dig up the old thread. It's painful knowing that the answer might be one search away. I'm excited that in the era of agentic search, agents can do the brute search work for you.
A piece of software, tool, or workflow you think is criminally underrated, and what does loving it say about you?
AI-SDK has been one of my most recent favorite pieces of software out there. As developers, we always love standards. Today, Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, and all other model providers have different messaging schemas. AI-SDK unifies that into a single schema, making it really easy for developers like myself to swap models for my agent features.
Welcome, Matthew. We're glad you're here!
