> Falconer site index for agents: https://falconer.com/llms.txt. HTML version of this page: https://falconer.com/authors/matt-zhao/

# Matt Zhao

> Matt Zhao is a founding engineer at Falconer. Previously, Matt was a tech lead at Amazon search working on ML data infra and search ranking.

![Matt Zhao](https://falconer.com/_astro/matt-zhao.CrGNEHNe_1lLSL3.webp)

Author

# Matt Zhao

Founding Engineer at Falconer

Matt Zhao is a founding engineer at Falconer. Previously, Matt was a tech lead at Amazon search working on ML data infra and search ranking.

[](https://x.com/XueyanZhao)[](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-xyz/)

## Notes from Matt Zhao

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May 27, 2026

## Falconer agent now speaks git

The Falconer agent can now answer questions about your code's history: who wrote what, when, and why. It calls git directly against your connected repos to do code archaeology, release diffs, regression hunts, and ownership lookups, all in a chat.

By Matt Zhao

](https://falconer.com/notes/falconer-agent-now-speaks-git)[

May 27, 2026

## Ditching the agent sandbox for AWS S3 Files

How we gave the Falconer agent git access (log, blame, diff between arbitrary refs) by mounting a shared NFS filesystem backed by S3 Files across our ingest and UI services. A walkthrough of the storage choice, the Pulumi quirks, and how we made the repo sync robust and reliable.

By Matt Zhao

](https://falconer.com/notes/how-falconer-powers-agents-with-aws-s3-files)[

April 9, 2026

## Falconer Update: Full self-driving docs

Falconer Update keeps your documentation in sync with your codebase automatically. Toggle it on for any document and choose Review mode for human-in-the-loop edits, or Full Self-Driving mode to let Falconer handle it entirely.

By Matt Zhao

](https://falconer.com/notes/falconer-update-self-driving-docs)