Matthew Persons is a cofounder and head of engineering at Oumi, focused on making foundation model development accessible to enterprises and the open-source community. Previously, he led Google Cloud’s Natural Language engineering team and helped bring its generative AI offerings, including PaLM and Gemini, from development to general availability. His work also included engineering leadership for the Cloud Natural Language API. Before Google, he worked at Microsoft. Matthew holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Cornell University, with a focus on artificial intelligence and a minor in mathematics. He brings experience building and deploying enterprise AI systems and pipelines at scale.