Matthew Russell is a founder and CEO with 10+ years of leadership building AI-driven products and platforms, currently commercializing Strongest AI® and its ZombieFit™ reference app for data-driven fitness on iOS and Apple Watch. A former CTO and senior engineering leader, he has led cross-functional delivery teams of 50+ and guided product, engineering, and cloud strategy through high-growth periods post-Series A. His background blends applied machine learning, unstructured data analytics (Synthesys), and practical software engineering, informed by an M.S. in Computer Science (Machine Learning) and service as a USAF communications officer. An experienced author for O’Reilly and open-source contributor (notably Dojo stewardship), he pairs product-focused entrepreneurship with deep technical craft and a penchant for building demonstrable reference implementations. He now focuses on shipping athletic intelligence tools while quietly migrating personal source control activity to GitLab, signaling a preference for curated, owned codebases over public forks.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at United States Air Force Academy
M.S. Computer Science Machine Learning, M.S. Computer Science Machine Learning at U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology
Contributions:1 PR, 66 pushes, 15 branches in 11 months
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