Matt Himrod has worked as an application integration engineer with a small company in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area since January 2008. He grew up in Wheeling, West Virginia before moving to Cleveland, Ohio where he earned his bachelor's degree in computer engineering and minor in artificial intelligence from Case Western Reserve University in 2004. He has previously worked as a system administrator in two of the Schools at Case Western Reserve before moving to Pittsburgh in 2007.

In his spare time, he works on freelance web programming projects, examples of which can be seen here. He also enjoys reading Wikipedia as well as science fiction. Matt also enjoys playing the flute and violin, working out at the gym, playing video games, and rollerblading.