# About Matt Legrand, software engineer & product designer at Anthropic

URL: https://mattlegrand.ai/about/

> Matt Legrand, software engineer and product designer at Anthropic (mattlegrand.ai).

2x founder inventing and scaling products in developer intelligence, digital tools, smart hardware, and creative software. Previously built products at leading tech companies.

- Role: Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic (https://www.anthropic.com)
- Based in: New York City
- Education: [Purdue University](https://www.purdue.edu)
- Expertise: Product design, Software development, Artificial intelligence, User interface design, Developer tools
- Also written as: Matthew Legrand, Matt LeGrand, insprd (the family name is one word, "Legrand")

## History

- [Anthropic](https://anthropic.com): Member of Technical Staff (2026 to present)
- [GitHub](https://github.com): Staff (2025)
- [Augment](https://augmentcode.com): Founding Product Designer, Head of Design (2024). Work: [Building a context engine for real codebases](https://mattlegrand.ai/work/augment/index.md)
- [Replit](https://replit.com): Staff Product Designer (2023). Work: [Tools for the next generation of software developers](https://mattlegrand.ai/work/replit/index.md)
- [Bubble](https://bubble.io): Head of Design (2019). Work: [Build full-stack applications without writing code](https://mattlegrand.ai/work/bubble/index.md)
- Common Sensing: Cofounder, Director of Design (2014; acquired). Work: [Data-driven care for injectable medicine](https://mattlegrand.ai/work/gocap/index.md)
- [IDEO](https://www.ideo.com): UX Designer (2013)

## Profiles

- <https://x.com/insprd>
- <https://github.com/insprd>
- <https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-legrand>
- <https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4290-6177>
- <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=z3UM7y4AAAAJ>
- <https://www.youtube.com/@mattlegrand>
- <https://bsky.app/profile/legrand.design>
- <https://posts.legrand.to/@matt>
- <https://mattle.gr/and>
- <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140194736>

## Contact

- Email: <mailto:matt@legrand.to>
- [Book a video call](https://mattlegrand.ai/meet/index.md)
