Summary
Matt Hoffman is an AI leader with 11 years of experience building production ML and NLP systems, currently Head of AI at Longeye and formerly a Staff Applied ML Engineer at Snorkel and ML Engineer at Weights & Biases. He combines product-minded engineering with hands-on model and data work—designing data-first ML platforms, bespoke NLP/NLG solutions, and tooling that helps practitioners ship reliably. His background spans startups and enterprise-facing roles, leading teams and client engagements while maintaining a strong technical craft in model development and deployment. Trained in economics and mathematics at Duke and Cornell, he brings quantitative rigor to ambiguous, real-world problems. Outside formal roles he’s been self-employed building experimental AI projects, signalling a maker’s curiosity and appetite for rapid exploration. His GitHub motto—explore >>> exploit—captures a pragmatic emphasis on experimentation before scaling.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Economics, Mathematics, BS, Economics, Mathematics at Duke University
Master's degree, Economics, Master's degree, Economics at Cornell University