# Matt Fisher

> Engineering executive with 15+ years building and scaling platform, product, and AI engineering organizations at global scale.

Matt Fisher is an engineering executive based remotely (previously NYC). He
has led large engineering organizations through hypergrowth, an IPO, multiple
acquisitions, and a $1.4B exit, with deep expertise in AI/ML platforms and video
playback and delivery at scale.

## Summary

- **Role:** Engineering Executive
- **Focus areas:** Engineering leadership, AI platform & product engineering, machine learning infrastructure, video playback and streaming at scale, organizational design and scaling, Model Context Protocol (MCP).
- **Scale led:** A ~150-person global engineering org supporting 287M+ users, 350K+ daily uploads, and 100B+ video views.
- **Notable outcomes:** Key engineering leadership through Vimeo's 2021 IPO, three acquisitions, and a $1.4B acquisition by Bending Spoons.

## Experience

- **McGraw Hill (AI Solutions Consultant, Contract), 2026** — Architecting a multimodal content ingestion and delivery system, and a scalable, permissions-aware MCP server fronting the platform so customers can interact with published content through AI while enforcing access controls.
- **Vimeo, 2016–2026** — Roles from Lead Engineer (Video Playback) through SVP of Engineering. Led Core Product, Growth, Mobile, Search, Video Playback, Analytics, AI Platform, and QA. Built AI platform and product capabilities, including a data pipeline with AI-in-the-loop powering a proprietary multimodal video context extraction system.
- **Twitch, 2013–2016 (acquired by Amazon)** — Software Engineer II, Video Playback. Key contributor to the RTMP-to-HLS migration that improved playback reliability and scale for a massive global audience.
- **Jam3, 2011–2013** — Senior Developer delivering award-winning interactive web experiences for major global brands.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattfisher4/
- GitHub: https://github.com/fisherinnovation
- Website: https://fisherinnovation.com/