MattieĀ Backman
Senior Product Engineer at Daily.co
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolMattie Backman is a Senior Product Engineer based in the Atlanta area with 11 years of experience building reliable platform and product systems. Currently at Daily.co, he blends hands-on backend and DevOps expertise with a history of platform leadership as Director of Platform at Oblong, guiding teams from low-level engineering to product delivery. He contributes to open-source conversational AI tooling (notably improving metrics and test infrastructure for the pipecat multimodal voice framework), showing a pragmatic focus on observability and testability. Known for turning ambiguous requirements into production-ready pipelines, he pairs deep engineering chops with a knack for making complex systems measurable and maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at Vanderbilt University
Github Skills (7)
python10
metric10
ai9
cd8
cicd8
openai8
voice7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
pipecat-ai/pipecat
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Open Source framework for voice and multimodal conversational AI
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:34 reviews, 13 PRs, 39 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Mattie's contributions primarily focus on improving the metrics and testing infrastructure of the pipecat framework. They added model name parameters to usage metrics and refined the structure of MetricsFrames. The user also addressed test failures by disabling broken tests and getting the testing infrastructure running. Furthermore, the user integrated pipeline parameters to enable metrics and usage metrics.
aichatbot-frameworkchatbotsreal-timevoice
mattieruth/daily-gists-by-ruthless
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 commits, 3 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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