Matt Speck

Data Scientist

Principal investigator and lead ML engineer on government-sponsored research programs, developing autonomous AI agents and machine learning systems for cyber operations and defense applications.

• Secured a $1M contract win by spearheading technical proposal writing and leading end-to-end proposal strategy, beating out 30+ competitors.
• Delivered an autonomous ML agent and a communication specification for DARPA multi-agent wargaming simulations featuring six competing agents, using PyTorch and reinforcement learning.
• Advanced several multi-year ML research programs for cyber operations as PI, driving technical vision across transformer architectures, reinforcement learning, and computer vision.
• Deployed containerized applications, MLOps pipelines, and APIs for government clients using Docker, FastAPI, and MLflow.
• Shaped company procedures, business development strategy, and internal tooling as part of cross-functional startup leadership.

Senior Consultant | Data Scientist

Built and deployed AI assistant products and data infrastructure for enterprise and federal clients.

• Delivered an enterprise AI assistant for employee policy questions to Booz Allen staff, then adapted it for federal clients through domain-specific fine-tuning in Python and Docker-based pipelines.
• Instrumented chatbot interactions and user queries at scale with Elasticsearch, enabling model training and evaluation against real usage.
• Maintained Python APIs and data pipelines in containerized environments, improving platform reliability across client programs.

Data Science Instructor

• Independent Contractor2018
• Lead Instructor2018
• Assistant Instructor2017

• Taught the full twelve-week immersive curriculum — Python, statistics, machine learning, capstones — to 30+ career-changing adult learners across three cohorts.
• Designed and delivered a part-time course for 40+ government consultants, tailored to applied analytics in a federal context.
• Ran a hackathon with Deloitte and a geospatial client project with TransitScreen; managed an assistant instructor, a PostgreSQL database, and the class GitHub organization.
• Wrote course materials adopted by instructors globally for enterprise clients.

Bolivia Intern

Traveled to remote communities to assess and monitor irrigation, drinking water, and ecological latrine projects — four prospective partners assessed, three ongoing programs evaluated, legal documents translated from Spanish.