33°42.5′N 118°15.1′W  Angels Gate, San Pedro Bay

Matias Masdeu

Nine years running Coast Guard operations. Now I’m starting something new, and I’m open to joining the right crew.

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Status
Under way
Destination
Undeclared
Last port
U.S. Coast Guard, 2017–2026
Home waters
Southern California

I keep hard things moving when the stakes are high.

I’ve led a team of 60 across 45 worldwide deployments and served as aide de camp to a two-star admiral.

The setting keeps changing. The work stays the same: get the picture straight, give every problem one owner, and follow it to closure. These days I build with a range of AI models to push the envelope of what one person can accomplish in a day.

The log

  1. 2026 – now Southern California
    33°46′N 118°11′W

    Under way

    Working out what to build next. Running a personal AI operating system: a chief-of-staff agent that routes work to specialist models, plus scheduled agents for daily briefs, meeting capture and federal SBIR/STTR solicitations. USC Marshall MBA candidate, expected July 2027.

  2. Jun – Oct 2026 Long Beach
    33°46′N 118°11′W

    Chief of Staff to the CEO

    Six One Sol, a founding-stage defense tech company. Set up the leadership cadence and lead triage, built a custom CRM with an AI chief-of-staff layer, and evaluated early-stage founders with a 100-question diligence framework.

  3. 2024 – 2026 Los Angeles
    33°44′N 118°16′W

    Head of Operations, Deployable Specialized Forces

    Led 60 people across 45 deployments worldwide, responsible for training, readiness, welfare and risk planning on homeland security missions.

  4. 2022 – 2024 Washington, DC
    38°54′N 77°02′W

    Aide de Camp, Coast Guard Cyber Command

    Principal aide to a two-star commander. Turned incident data and interagency intelligence into briefs for 3 congressional hearings on threats to U.S. maritime ports, and helped shape the command’s expansion to the West Coast.

  5. 2019 – 2022 Long Beach
    33°46′N 118°11′W

    Search and Rescue Controller

    Directed air and surface assets across a 52,000-square-mile maritime region on hundreds of cases, from distressed vessels to cruise ship medical evacuations.

  6. 2017 – 2019 San Francisco Bay
    37°47′N 122°25′W

    IT Specialist

    Network engineering, network security and systems support for Coast Guard operations. It’s where the technical side started.

Two ways aboard

Build with me

I’m starting a company, and its name isn’t on the hull yet. I’m drawn to hard problems in the physical world: maritime, critical infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, and the AI that runs underneath them. I want to meet founders who need an operator, technical people who want a co-founder, and investors who back people early.

Talk about building

Hire me

I’d also join the right team. I’m looking at chief of staff, operations and founding-team roles with leaders working on something that matters. I set the cadence, run the follow-through, and build the systems that keep it running after I’ve moved on to the next problem.

Talk about a role

I also still scout maritime tech, vetting what works at sea and connecting it with the people who fund it. You’ll find that side of things on @matias.labs.

Hail me.

hello@matiasmasdeu.com
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