Title: Vice President of Engineering, CoAspire
Groups: Industry Representatives
Matthew Fisher has over 30 years of engineering expertise in the fields of software engineering, system engineering architectures and technical leadership across a series of start-ups, mid-sized companies and Fortune 50 corporations.
Before joining CoAspire in 2024, he worked at General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) as a Principal Investigator over multiple Department of Defense contracts and oversaw the technical direction of $50M worth of department-wide programs. GDMS completed the acquisition of Progeny Systems in the last year where Matt had served as Senior Director of Engineering. It was during this time that he focused on delivering IaaS and SaaS solutions in cloud environments, distributed and complex data transformation architectures and an advanced mission planning/execution/management system, spanning R&D and production programs.
Matt’s book, Semantic Web Programming, was the first Java-based textbook for Semantic Web developers (now known as Linked Data) and he has authored over twenty papers and conference talks throughout his career. He has held various chair and member positions for multiple academic conferences, mostly centered on Semantic Web/Linked Data efforts. He was awarded a US patent for an automated distributed software download/installation architecture with two additional patents pending.
Starting as a software developer with a BSCS degree from Penn State, Matt went on to earn his MSCS degree from George Mason University (GMU) and has remained active in the Northern Virginia technical ecosystem, alternating between defense and commercial sectors. He was recently elected to the IEEE’s Northern Virginia Executive Committee as a Director for Region 2, with a focus on expanding collegiate participation and membership growth. Matt participates as a Program Evaluator Volunteer for ABET serving on Computer Science program accreditation teams for colleges and universities around the world. He is a founder and board member with GMU’s AI-in-Gov Council that provides thought leadership by bridging industry and academia on AI approaches, governance, technologies, and guardrails in the development and deployment of AI technologies within government. He founded two tutoring businesses and is currently leading a new online math preparatory business.