Matt Legrand is a 2x founder inventing and scaling products in developer intelligence, digital tools, smart hardware, and creative software.

Matt Legrand, a black-and-white portrait in profile

Matt Legrand is a founder, product designer and director based in New York. He's a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic.

He has built and led products at every stage from stealth to acquisition. He cofounded Common Sensing, where he invented a smart dose monitor for injectable medicine. Bigfoot Biomedical acquired the company in 2021. He was the founding product designer at Augment Code, building developer intelligence for large engineering teams, and launched the world's first coding agent at Replit.

He wrote and directed Solutionism, a short documentary about design thinking and social innovation that screened at the Cannes Court Métrage Short Film Corner in 2013. He makes draw.cafe, a drawing tool for wireframes and diagrams, and ghst, a smarter autocomplete for the terminal.

  • AnthropicMember of Technical Staff2026
  • GitHubStaff2025 to 2026
  • AugmentAcquiredFounding Product Designer, Head of Design2024 to 2025
  • ReplitStaff Product Designer2023 to 2024
  • BubbleHead of Design2019 to 2023
  • Common SensingAcquiredCofounder, Director of Design2014 to 2019
  • IDEOUX Designer2013 to 2014