mattjcowan

Hey, I'm Matt.

I've spent 25+ years in the trenches of enterprise software — federal agencies, manufacturing, scientific organizations, and everything in between. I run MJCZone Inc., a consulting firm where I help organizations solve hard technical problems with clean, maintainable solutions.

My day-to-day stack is .NET/C#, Vue/Nuxt, PostgreSQL, and Cloudflare — self-hosted on Hetzner. I've built everything from NERDE/NERRAA at Argonne National Laboratory (replacing Tableau for hundreds of non-technical researchers) to multi-tenant SaaS platforms to systematic trading infrastructure.

Outside the billable work, I'm building things I believe in: Swingsei for systematic futures trading, Teach Classical for families pursuing Classical Christian Education (CCE), and SuperSimpleWeb — an AI-native web builder I've been incubating for a while.

Faith is foundational for me, not a compartment. Colossians 2:8 is the operating verse for a lot of how I think about technology, education, and culture. I'm married to Kristina, an author whose writing on faith and motherhood has its own reach. We have a son who's making his own mark.

Background

MBA from Pepperdine. Dual BA in Physics and Anthropology. The physics-anthropology combination is unusual — it trained me to think in systems and in human context simultaneously, which turns out to be exactly what enterprise software requires.

I've done deep work at Argonne National Laboratory, FEMA, and DHS. I built NERDE/NERRAA — a platform that let non-technical federal users build hundreds of data pages without writing a line of code. That project is the ancestor of everything I think about SuperSimpleWeb today.

I'm an INFP. I speak English and French. I'm an active futures trader (ES, NQ) using NinjaTrader, transitioning from discretionary to fully systematic. The trading journal on this site documents that transition honestly — wins and losses both.

Open Source

I maintain DapperMatic — an open-source DDL/DML abstraction library for .NET, relicensed to LGPL-3.0. It's used in several of my commercial projects and available on GitHub. If you work with Dapper and need portable schema management, give it a look.