# Matt McInnis

> Matt McInnis is the Toronto-based founder and CEO of Typist, which develops keyboarding and document-production software for college students. A former mathematics professor and AI lead at IBM and Microsoft, he taught himself software development through personal projects and built Typist alongside his corporate work before taking it full time.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Typist
- **Organizations:** Typist, IBM, Microsoft, Centennial College, Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Where The GOOD Is!, Virtual Coffee
- **Education:** Western University
- **Known for:** Founded Typist and brought it to full-time work after building it during evenings, weekends and vacation days., Built a baseball ticket-pricing application that he credits with attracting IBM’s attention., Received the 2012 Top Academic Faculty Member recognition at Centennial College, according to his speaker biography.

## Career timeline

- **circa 2010** — While teaching mathematics in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, began learning electronics and programming to build classroom tools; date approximate in his 2022 interview.
- **2010-2011** — Co-led an Adventure Learning Experiences trip involving 35 teacher candidates travelling to rural Kenya for school construction and teaching.
- **2012** — Received Centennial College’s Top Academic Faculty Member recognition, according to his speaker biography.
- **2012-2013** — Founded and directed Where The GOOD Is!, a Toronto charity-video and volunteerism project.
- **2016** — Typist was established; his speaker biography also dates his recruitment to IBM Canada’s North American Open Source Team to 2016.
- **After IBM; exact year unverified** — Joined Microsoft as an AI lead working with enterprise customers.
- **Before May 2022; exact year unverified** — Left Microsoft to work on Typist full time while rebuilding its document-production software against a five-month deadline.
- **2022** — Discussed his self-taught development career on Virtual Coffee’s Go Make Stuff! episode on May 25.
- **2023** — Demonstrated coding with ChatGPT on Nick Taylor’s June 21 livestream.
- **2024** — Discussed hiring and lifelong learning on Toronto Metropolitan University’s The Forefront podcast on March 11.
- **2025** — Published a Claude Code RuboCop hook in a public GitHub gist in July.

## Achievements

- Founded Typist and brought it to full-time work after building it during evenings, weekends and vacation days.
- Built a baseball ticket-pricing application that he credits with attracting IBM’s attention.
- Received the 2012 Top Academic Faculty Member recognition at Centennial College, according to his speaker biography.
- States in his instructor course that he has collaborated with faculty at over 45 colleges.

## Latest updates

- **2025-07** — Created a public Claude Code RuboCop hook gist on July 21 and updated it on July 22.
- **2024-03** — Appeared on Toronto Metropolitan University’s The Forefront podcast to discuss hiring, continued learning and microcredentials.
- **2023-06** — Joined Nick Taylor for a recorded demonstration of coding with ChatGPT.

## Links

- Website: https://join-typist.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattmcinnis/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/MattLovesMath
- GitHub: https://github.com/MattyMc

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Last updated: 2026-10-23