Matt Figdore
Co-Founder at Ivory Mind
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Figdore is a founder and software engineer with 8 years of experience building AI-driven products and research-grade tools. As Co-Founder of Ivory Mind he helps power an LLM document assistant used by over 500,000 researchers, academics, students, and professionals worldwide. His background spans machine learning research in genomics and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins to hands-on engineering and product leadership at Speechify, where he scaled mobile and backend systems and led a 15-person team. He has led community-focused tech efforts—securing grant funding and delivering a Covid information SMS platform for underserved populations—and has shipped open-source neuroimaging tooling used by domain scientists. Comfortable moving between research, product, and engineering, he combines statistical rigor with practical product delivery. Based in New York, he brings entrepreneurial drive and a knack for turning complex data and ML research into usable, widely adopted software.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityZ Fellows
English
Github Skills (17)
autoencoder10
neuroscience9
python8
cognitive-science8
neuroimaging8
tag-input8
computational-neuroscience8
autocomplete6
dialog6
react5
drawer5
popover3
shadcn-ui2
inference1
radix1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
NeuroDataDesign/mouselit
Sep 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:28 pushes in 8 months
adidalal/endkit
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 day
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