Matthew Desenfants
AI Engineering Manager at Premera Blue Cross
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Desenfants is an AI Engineering Manager and hands-on architect with 13+ years of experience building cloud-native systems and scaling engineering organizations to SOC 2 readiness and cost-efficient operations. He blends strategic leadership and player-coach execution, having driven major reductions in cloud spend and led first-time SOC 2 Type II certifications across multiple companies. Technically, he architects multi-agent cognitive frameworks, RAG pipelines, and vector-database powered systems—currently co-designing agents that tackle long-context narrative orchestration and symbolic math reasoning where single LLMs fall short. A pragmatic polyglot, he ships production solutions in Python and C# on Azure/AWS with containerized orchestration, and is finishing a Master’s in AI & ML to tighten theory to practice. Comfortable as a fractional CTO or advisor, he pairs startup-level inventiveness (including proprietary “Math Engine” and “Game Master” agents) with enterprise-grade governance and cloud modernization expertise. Based in Seattle, he thrives at the intersection of product risk, compliance, and cutting-edge AI research.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at South Dakota MinesBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSM&T)Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Western Governors University
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Github Skills (55)
offset10
sound-synthesis9
web-audio-api9
resample9
audio9
audio-effect8
segment8
counter8
wave8
pulse8
dbup7
entities7
waveform7
dotnet-core7
dotnet7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mdesenfants/atomic
Dec 2018 - Sep 2019
A cloud-scale counter
Contributions:135 commits, 65 PRs, 80 pushes in 8 months
cloud-scalescalecloudkubernetescloud-native
teleos-consulting/celery-ranch
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
LRU task optimization extension on top of Python Celery
Contributions:1 review, 34 PRs, 53 pushes in 1 day
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