Matthew Summers
Software Engineer at Arista Networks
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Summers is a software engineer with 13 years' experience building backend systems and machine learning tooling, currently driving engineering work at Arista Networks from Edinburgh. He has a strong track record in security and networking domains—contributing to Fortinet/ZoneFox product rearchitectures, low-level Windows/C++ monitoring agents, and network tooling during internships at Vyatta and Google. At Rasa he contributed to an influential open-source conversational AI project, focusing on CLI refactors, argument parsing robustness, validators and unit tests that improved developer ergonomics and maintainability. Comfortable across languages and stacks (C#, Python, Kotlin, C++, PyTorch), he combines practical production engineering with ML prototyping and test-driven improvements. Collected from an Informatics MInf (First) at the University of Edinburgh, he pairs academic foundations with hands-on deployments in both startups and large enterprises. An often-overlooked strength is his emphasis on tooling and test infrastructure, which repeatedly reduced duplication and surface area for bugs in complex codebases.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Informatics (MInf), Informatics, First, Informatics (MInf), Informatics, First at The University of Edinburgh
Github Skills (9)
argparse10
rasa10
python10
cli9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
unit-testing8
natural-language-processing7
machine-learning7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
RasaHQ/rasa
Aug 2021 - Dec 2021
đź’¬ Open source machine learning framework to automate text- and voice-based conversations: NLU, dialogue management, connect to Slack, Facebook, and more - Create chatbots and voice assistants
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:125 reviews, 90 commits, 27 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on refactoring and improving the command-line interface and related argument parsing within the Rasa framework. They made adjustments to the `argparse` usage to control how arguments are set. The user also contributed to the validator module. Furthermore, the user merged branches and added unit tests, demonstrating a focus on code quality and maintainability.
nlupythonbotspeech-recognitionbotkit
Wishf/goinghome.club
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:3 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
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