My Journey

Once a commercial fisherman off Montauk, I became tetraplegic after a diving accident. I rebuilt my life through code and creativity — now I ship production AI systems and full-stack platforms, create fine art drone photography, and inspire others through writing.

My Development Projects

I'm an AI Engineer & Full-Stack Developer with four live production apps and six projects in my portfolio. I build agentic AI systems, computer vision pipelines, and full-stack platforms with React, TypeScript, Django, and modern cloud tooling.

My two flagship projects: ToteTaxi — a luxury delivery platform with a LangGraph AI agent, dynamic pricing, Stripe, and Onfleet dispatch. And my Photography Store — with an AI shopping assistant that searches photos semantically, visualizes prints on your wall, and handles checkout through conversation.

Read the technical deep-dives: How I Built ToteTaxi's AI Agent and How I Built an AI Shopping Assistant That Sees Your Wall.

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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

Try the live AI assistant — search photos by mood, visualize prints on your wall, and check out through conversation.

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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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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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