Matthew Zeiler
Founder And CEO at Clarifai
McLean, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Zeiler is a seasoned AI founder and technologist, steering Clarifai as Founder and CEO since 2013 after earning his PhD at NYU. He has collaborated with renowned ML pioneers Geoff Hinton, Rob Fergus, Yann LeCun, and Jeff Dean, shaping his deep learning passion and the platform's focus. He leads a full-stack AI platform that covers data labeling, data management, model training, evaluation, elastic inference, monitoring, and production-grade workflows, enabling organizations to deploy AI at scale. Based in McLean, Virginia, he has a track record of building production ML systems and previously contributed to Google's large-scale ML production efforts during internships. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced the Activepieces project, refining the Clarifai integration, adding file upload support and text classification, and enabling model-driven workflows across 280+ components. His path through academia and startups reflects a rare blend of rigorous research, entrepreneurial drive, and hands-on engineering to turn complex AI into practical production solutions.
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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