Matthew Cutone
Software Engineer at Open Science Tools
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Cutone is a software engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building tools at the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, and research-grade hardware. As Director of Opsyn Technologies and a developer at Open Science Tools, he helps organizations bring lab-focused products to market and integrate robust software/hardware solutions into research workflows. He contributes to prominent open-source projects like PsychoPy, where he improved speech-to-text and audio handling by refactoring sound transcription and adding OpenAI Whisper support. With an M.A. in Psychology and extensive lab software experience dating back to astronomical instrumentation, he blends experimental design insight with pragmatic engineering. Based in Toronto, he’s comfortable moving between backend engineering, device control, and academic requirements to deliver reproducible, production-ready research tools.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
M.A., Psychology, M.A., Psychology at York University
English
Github Skills (9)
speech-recognition10
audio-processing10
python10
integrations9
lib9
integrate9
refactoring8
refactor8
sound-processing8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
psychopy/psychopy
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
For running psychology and neuroscience experiments
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 reviews, 294 commits, 510 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on refactoring the sound transcription module, optimizing the use of recognizer instances. They updated the system to enhance speech-to-text conversion and incorporate support for OpenAI Whisper. Additionally, the user addressed audio-related issues by fixing bugs related to handling sound in various components.
neurosciencepythonexperiment-controlcognitive-scienceopenscience
mdcutone/psychopy
Feb 2021 - Mar 2025
For running psychology and neuroscience experiments
Contributions:5 PRs, 1102 pushes, 365 branches in 4 years 2 months
neurosciencepythonneuroimagingneuroscience-experimentscognitive-science
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