# Mathias Biilmann

> Mathias (Matt) Biilmann is the Danish co-founder and CEO of Netlify. A programmer with an academic background in musicology and a former music journalist, he built Webpop and BitBalloon before Netlify, coined Jamstack, and introduced Agent Experience (AX) in January 2025. His writing and product experiments focus on making the open web easier to build on with human and AI collaborators.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Netlify
- **Organizations:** Netlify, Webpop
- **Nationality:** Danish
- **Education:** Bachelor’s studies in musicology and comparative literature; graduate study in cultural studies, University of Copenhagen
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Netlify., Coined Jamstack to describe a decoupled web architecture., Introduced Agent Experience (AX) as a product design discipline in January 2025.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2010** — Worked as a music journalist for Danish radio, then moved to Madrid and progressed from software engineer to CTO.
- **2010** — Started Webpop, a cloud content management system.
- **2013** — Built BitBalloon; its first repository commit was on May 20.
- **2014** — Co-founded Netlify with Christian Bach.
- **2015** — Launched Netlify out of private beta in March and coined Jamstack.
- **2016** — Netlify announced a $2.1 million funding round.
- **2019** — Co-authored Modern Web Development on the JAMstack with Phil Hawksworth.
- **2024** — Announced that more than five million developers had signed up for Netlify.
- **2025** — Introduced Agent Experience (AX) on January 28 and experimented with agent-assisted publishing.
- **2026** — Published a one-year AX retrospective and essays on AI-enabled ambition and human accountability.

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Netlify.
- Coined Jamstack to describe a decoupled web architecture.
- Introduced Agent Experience (AX) as a product design discipline in January 2025.
- Co-authored Modern Web Development on the JAMstack.
- Led Netlify through its five-million-developer signup milestone announced in September 2024.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Published Natural pacing through human accountability on September 15, arguing that people and companies should remain responsible for AI systems they operate.
- **2026-07** — Netlify published the thirteen-year history of his BitBalloon prototype and reported that more than 60 percent of June 2026 signups first deployed through Drop.
- **2026-04** — Published AI and Ambition on April 15 and Agent Experience moves upstream on April 29.
- **2026-01** — Published One Year of AX on January 28, outlining access, context, tools and orchestration.

## Links

- Website: https://biilmann.blog/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathias-biilmann-christensen-a5a3805
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/biilmann
- GitHub: https://github.com/biilmann
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/biilmann.blog

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Last updated: 2026-10-14