Lewis Wolfgang
Principal Software Engineer at Daily
Stamford, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLewis Wolfgang is a Principal Software Engineer in Stamford, CT with a rare blend of deep academic rigor (PhD and MA in Mathematics from MIT and Harvard) and decades of hands-on engineering and executive experience building real-time video and content-delivery systems. At Daily he focuses on scaling WebRTC to support thousands of participants, and his background as Founder & CTO of startups shows he pairs product instincts with implementation discipline. He has a long track record at KenCast driving novel FEC algorithms, industry-leading multicast delivery products, and professionalizing engineering practices while remaining a principal contributor and inventor on multiple patents. Lewis also contributes to open-source AI tooling—adding voice activity detection and stabilizing TTS and OpenAI integrations in the Pipecat conversational AI framework—demonstrating an appetite for practical ML ops and multimodal systems. Known for translating complex signal-processing research into production at scale, he thrives at the intersection of distributed systems, real-time media, and applied machine learning.
6 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Mathematics, Ph.D. Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Arts - MA Mathematics, Master of Arts - MA Mathematics at Harvard University
Github Skills (10)
voice10
python10
ai10
openai9
chatbot9
bots9
onnx8
realtime7
dockers3
docker3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pipecat-ai/pipecat
May 2024 - Oct 2024
Open Source framework for voice and multimodal conversational AI
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & MLOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & MLOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 11 PRs, 6 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Lewis focused on enhancing the functionality and stability of the Pipecat AI framework. Their contributions included improving text-to-speech service handling and optimizing OpenAI connections. They also added support for voice activity detection (VAD) using the Silero model by integrating the `silero_vad.onnx` model and removing an unnecessary dependency. Moreover, they implemented enhancements to DailyRESTHelper to streamline room deletion operations.
aichatbot-frameworkchatbotsreal-timevoice
LewisWolfgang/mediasoup
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
Cutting Edge WebRTC Video Conferencing
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 days
cuttingwebrtc-videowebrtcvideo-conferencingedge
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