Brent Spell
Principal AI Research Engineer at Motif
United States
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Top SchoolBrent Spell is a Principal AI Research Engineer with 13 years of experience building production AI and voice systems, currently leading research engineering at Motif. He has deep expertise in generative speech and audio—designing LLM and diffusion-based TTS, voice conversion, speaker editing, and GAN-based residual VQVAE codecs—and has built scalable GPU job systems and streaming DSP post-processing for real-world products. Previously a CTO and head of AI, he’s led small teams to ship SaaS voice platforms, wakeword training pipelines, and mobile on-device speech frameworks, and earlier roles span backend and ML systems at OpenTable and enterprise BI architectures. An avid problem solver, Brent has completed every year of Advent of Code with public solutions on GitHub, reflecting a habit of continual hands-on exploration alongside product-focused engineering leadership.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Louisiana State University
English
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Github Skills (87)
python10
text-to-speech10
voice-commands10
speech10
voice10
speech-synthesis10
natural-language-understanding10
keyword-spotting10
voice-assistant10
tensorflow10
android-app10
voice-activity-detection10
android10
speech-to-text10
voice-control10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
brentspell/NuBuild
Nov 2012 - Nov 2016
NuGet package build system and Visual Studio project templates
Contributions:53 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 years
build-systemnuget-packagevisual-studio
pylon/extensor
Jun 2018 - Dec 2021
Tensorflow bindings for inference in Elixir
Contributions:7 releases, 2 reviews, 50 commits in 3 years 6 months
elixirinferencetensorflow
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