Arlo Faria
Member Of Technical Staff at Mod9 Technologies
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolArlo Faria is a speech technology specialist and entrepreneur with a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and roughly three years in industry research roles, plus a decade of startup experience building audio and search products. He moved from ASR research at Berkeley and ICSI into commercial R&D at Zoom—focusing on ASR-LLM integration and pretrained speech foundation models—and now works on multimodal foundation models at Cartesia. As founder of Remeeting and Mod9 he shipped an ASR engine and an audio/video search product for Zoom recordings, demonstrating an uncommon blend of deep research, production optimization, and productization. Based in Berkeley, he pairs academic rigor with hands-on engineering, optimizing streaming inference and licensing speech tech to customers.
3 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
968reputation
24kreached
3answers
3questions
Github Skills (18)
speech10
audio-processing9
audio9
python8
machine-learning8
io8
pytorch8
signal-processing8
command-line-utility7
shell6
inputstream6
flask6
emacs6
http6
bash6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
pytorch/audio
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
Data manipulation and transformation for audio signal processing, powered by PyTorch
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 comments in 14 days
audiopytorchsignal-processingpythonio
arlofaria-zoom/Montreal-Forced-Aligner
Feb 2024 - Feb 2024
Command line utility for forced alignment using Kaldi
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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