Matt Mason

Matt is Chief Technology Officer at HomeX. He joined the HomeX Applied Science team in 2019. For the last year, he led the Platform Engineering team, and is now responsible for IT and security & compliance functions.

Prior to joining HomeX, Matt spent almost 6 years at Amazon, where he developed workflows to support general knowledge question answering capabilities for Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant, which was first launched with the Echo smart speaker in 2014. Following the success of Alexa in the US and UK markets, Matt and his team of software and knowledge engineers developed Alexa’s ability to answer questions in multiple languages as Alexa launched in marketplaces across the globe.

Matt holds a BEng in Electronic and Software Engineering from the University of Birmingham. He now lives in Cambridge, UK. When he’s not working, Matt enjoys spending time in the Cambridgeshire countryside with his wife and their 2 children.