Matt Frey
Director Of Engineering at Cisco
Holland, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Frey is a Director of Engineering with nine years of experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered collaboration features at Cisco, combining hands-on systems work with people-first leadership. He has deep backend and ML engineering roots—shipping real-time gesture detection, scalable vector search for face and voice recognition, and optimizations to open-source conversational AI tooling like Cisco’s MindMeld. Known for creating high-performing, learning-focused teams, he balances Influence and autonomy to let engineers do their best work while keeping standards high in DevOps and security. His earlier career includes large-scale search and low-latency systems at CBS Interactive, where he dramatically cut costs and latency for TV listings services. Based in Holland, Michigan, he’s self-educated and brings a pragmatic, results-oriented approach that favors efficiency and measurable impact.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Self-educated
Github Skills (6)
data-structures10
python10
data-structure10
conversational-ai10
natural-language-processing9
nlp9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cisco/mindmeld
May 2018 - Jul 2021
An Open Source Conversational AI Platform for Deep-Domain Voice Interfaces and Chatbots.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 reviews, 9 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Matt contributed to the core functionality of the MindMeld conversational AI platform, focusing on optimizations and refactoring within several modules. Their work included changes to tokenization, deepcopy implementations for data structures, and gazetteer resource management. They added selective deepcopy features and modified constructor methods. These changes aimed to improve the efficiency and performance of the platform's internal data handling.
conversational-ai
davidmfrey/libkuhli
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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