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Matthew Powers

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AI software engineer who developed LLM training and evaluation infrastructure at Perplexity and OpenAI, including distributed Python and PyTorch pipelines.

United States
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At Perplexity, I developed infrastructure for LLM experimentation, post-training, automated evaluation, and inference workflows. I built distributed Python and PyTorch pipelines for model experimentation, data processing, and compute-intensive ML workloads.

At OpenAI, I developed model training and evaluation infrastructure and systems for measuring model capabilities, quality, regressions, reliability, and behavior across model versions. I collaborated with research and infrastructure engineers to productionize experimental ML techniques and improve throughput, reproducibility, observability, and infrastructure efficiency.

Earlier, at Datadog, I developed components of a cloud observability and distributed monitoring platform, including Go and Python services, Kafka processing pipelines, and React/TypeScript interfaces. At Microsoft, I developed cloud-based enterprise applications and contributed to API design, database optimization, and cloud deployment pipelines.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Perplexity logoPE

Senior AI Software Engineer

Sep 2024 - Aug 2026 (1 year 11 months)

Developed large-scale model training and evaluation infrastructure supporting LLM experimentation, post-training, automated evaluation, and inference workflows. Built distributed Python and PyTorch pipelines for model experimentation, data processing, evaluation, and compute-intensive ML workloads. Developed evaluation systems for measuring model capabilities, quality, regressions, reliability, an

OpenAI logoOP

Machine Learning / AI Engineer

Feb 2021 - Aug 2024 (3 years 6 months)

Developed large-scale model training and evaluation infrastructure supporting LLM experimentation, post-training, automated evaluation, and inference workflows. Built distributed Python and PyTorch pipelines for model experimentation, data processing, evaluation, and compute-intensive ML workloads. Developed evaluation systems for measuring model capabilities, quality, regressions, reliability, an

Datadog logoDA

Full Stack Engineer

Feb 2018 - Jan 2021 (2 years 11 months)

Developed components of a cloud observability and distributed monitoring platform processing large volumes of metrics, logs, traces, and application telemetry. Built scalable Go and Python backend services, REST/gRPC APIs, Kafka-based processing pipelines, and React/TypeScript application interfaces. Designed distributed data-processing components and optimized databases, caching layers, APIs, and

MI

Software Developer

Microsoft

Aug 2015 - Jan 2018 (2 years 5 months)

Developed cloud-based enterprise applications using C#, .NET, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL, and Microsoft Azure across frontend and backend systems. Built REST APIs, authentication services, relational data models, asynchronous processing workflows, and reusable web application components. Implemented unit, integration, and end-to-end testing while contributing to automated CI/CD and cloud deploymen

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Stanford University logoSU

Stanford University

Master of Science

2013 - 2015

Stanford University logoSU

Stanford University

Bachelor of Science

2009 - 2013

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