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 (120)
python10
voice-commands10
deep-learning10
voice10
tensorflow10
android-app10
voice-control10
machine-learning10
nuget-package10
ml9
spokestack9
neural-network9
extensible9
voice-recognition9
speech-to-text9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
brentspell/aoc
Dec 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:142 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
pylon/spect
Feb 2018 - Jan 2021
Type specification extensions for Elixir
Contributions:28 commits, 13 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 11 months
specificationtlaelixirschema-validationextensions
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