Matthew Downey
Journalist at Self-employed
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Downey is a journalist and maker with eight years of diverse hands-on experience spanning NLP research, software development, and content creation. With deep exposure to NLP—training spaCy models, applying BERT, building generative transformers, and publishing work at EMNLP—he translates technical research into practical demos and stories, including a deployed chatbot and CodaLab competitions. He pairs that technical fluency with real-world grit from concrete work and lifeguarding, and he’s led his university Jiu-Jitsu club as president, blending leadership, coaching, and logistics. Currently focused on journalism and online storytelling, he aims to spread ideas widely while remaining open to startup roles, part-time physical work to improve conditioning, and projects that combine food, performance, and technology.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
UMass LowellWestford Academy
Github Skills (7)
fairseq4
wandb3
docker2
cli2
reproducible-science2
reproducible-research2
pytorch1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
text-machine-lab/fairseq
Apr 2020 - Oct 2020
Fairseq fork with wandb support
Contributions:23 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
wandbfairseq
Matthewdowney18/Transformer_Dialogue
Apr 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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