Matthew Zeiler
Founder And CEO at Clarifai
McLean, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Zeiler is the founder and CEO of Clarifai, a full-stack AI company he launched after earning a PhD from NYU and working with pioneers like Geoff Hinton and Jeff Dean. For over a decade he has translated deep learning research into production-grade computer vision, NLP, and audio platforms that streamline data labeling, model training, elastic inference, and monitoring for enterprise deployments. He blends hands-on engineering—contributing backend improvements to open-source automation tooling like Activepieces—with strategic product leadership that enables on-prem, cloud, and edge AI delivery. Based in McLean, VA, Matthew pairs a strong academic pedigree with entrepreneurial grit dating back to a student-founded publishing venture, and he’s focused on making AI accessible and auditable for organizations at scale.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Pre-Med, Bachelors Pre-Med at University of ManitobaHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Edward Schreyer SchoolDoctor of Philosophy Degree Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy Degree Computer Science at New York UniversityBachelor of Applied Science Engineering Science, Bachelor of Applied Science Engineering Science at University of Toronto
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Github contributions (5)
activepieces/activepieces
Aug 2023 - Aug 2023
Open Source AI Automation ✨ All our 280+ pieces are now available as MCP to use with LLMs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on modifying and expanding the functionality of the Clarifai piece within the Activepieces project. Their contributions included refactoring the code, changing the input method to include file uploads, and adding the capability to classify text. They also implemented and integrated various models into workflows and added actions to manage different data input types, ensuring the piece's versatility. Furthermore, the user made some related import removals.
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Clarifai/clarifai-python-utils
Dec 2021 - Jul 2023
This is a collection of helper utilities around the Clarifai API.
Contributions:2 releases, 9 reviews, 16 PRs in 1 year 7 months
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