SOFTWARE / RESEARCH / WEB / MEDIA

I build thingsfor theinternet.

Turning unclear ideas into useful software and digital experiences.

Matthew Tavares wearing a navy suit jacket
MATTHEW TAVARESCS · RPI · 2026

FEATURED WORK

Work that left the prototype stage.

01

COMPUTER VISION / C++ / WORKFLOW AUTOMATION

AI Video Editor

A faster first cut, without taking the editor out of the loop.

A C++ and OpenCV tool that analyzed footage, surfaced cleaner segments, prioritized faces, and preserved manual review before export. Used across 50+ videos in a real production workflow.

~60%less manual editing time
field_take_07.mp4CV ASSIST
FACE
00:00Analyzing footage00:12
SCANNING FRAMESUSABLE SEGMENT
02
MIKEWALLING.COMLIVE / DEPLOYED
MIKE WALLINGHOME   BOOKS   ABOUT   PODCAST
STORYTELLER · AUTHOR · HISTORIAN

Mike Walling

Maritime history, military lives, and the voices of people who stood their watch.

CLIENT PROJECT / FRONT-END / DEPLOYED

Freelance Web Design

Giving an established author a sharper home online.

Redesigned and rebuilt a public-facing author site around books, biography, media, and direct reader contact, then handled deployment and production polish.

03

PYTHON / GRAPH THEORY / QUANTUM RESEARCH

Research Software

Turning abstract mathematical research into software you can inspect, test, and use.

At HARP, I built tested Python abstractions and graph tooling around generalized graph structures and quaternion-based representations, including research into how those models could connect with quantum software.

GENERALIZED GRAPH STRUCTURELIVE MODEL
E1 V1 L4 V2 L2 L3 L1 V7 V4 E2 V5 V8 VERTEX EDGE LAYER DIRECTION / SPIN
VERTICES · EDGES · LAYERS · SPINSHARPGRAPH2

CREATIVE / DIGITAL MEDIA

I learned the internet by making things people watched.

Years before software became my focus, I was already learning how to edit, publish, hold attention, and make digital work people chose to watch.

5M+VIEWS ACROSS MY YOUTUBE CHANNELS
15K+SUBSCRIBERS GROWN ON MY OWN CHANNEL
100+CLIENTS HELPED IN THE BOSTON AREA
10+YEARS OF PROFESSIONAL VIDEO EDITING EXPERIENCE

CAPABILITIES

What can we build together?

01WEBWebsites & digital experiences+

Responsive, polished sites built around a real person, business, or idea—not a template.

02SOFTWARETools & automation+

Focused applications and workflow tools that remove repetitive work or make difficult processes easier to use.

03AIEvaluation & intelligent systems+

Computer vision, AI-enabled workflows, model evaluation, benchmarking, and careful experimentation with emerging systems.

04MEDIAEditing & digital production+

Video editing and digital content shaped around clarity, pacing, audience, and purpose.

ABOUT / EXPERIENCE

I’m Matthew.

Software engineer blending research, AI, computer vision, and creative technology to build useful systems.

I like work where the problem is still being figured out—whether that means translating mathematical research into Python, evaluating AI systems, automating a production workflow, or shipping something for a real client.

EDUCATION

B.S. in Computer Science

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

May 2026 · Troy, NY

EXPERIENCE

01

Quantum Software Engineer Intern

HARP Research, Inc.

SEP 2024 — JAN 2025
02

AI Trainer (Python & C++)

Outlier

DEC 2024 — PRESENT
03

Financial LLM Researcher

FINOS

MAY 2024 — AUG 2024

RELEVANT KNOWLEDGE / SKILLS

  • Python, C++, C, SQL, Java
  • OpenCV, NumPy, pandas, Matplotlib, pytest, Qiskit
  • Git, GitHub, Linux, Jupyter Notebook
  • MongoDB, AWS, JSON, REST APIs
  • Computer vision & workflow automation
  • AI evaluation, benchmarking & LLM workflows
  • Graph software, quaternion APIs & testing

GET IN TOUCH

Have something in mind?Let’s build it.

Have a project, engineering problem, website, or unusual idea? Send me a note.