Matthew Honnibal

Matthew Honnibal is co-founder and chief technology officer of Explosion, the company behind spaCy and Prodigy. A computational linguist, he developed spaCy to make advanced natural-language processing usable in practical software projects. His work spans language technology, annotation and developer workflows. Explosion’s current materials identify him as CTO and founder in Berlin, and its 2026 Ellf launch extends the company’s tooling toward building custom NLP systems with coding assistants while retaining human control over data and evaluation.

Building Useful NLP with Coding Assistants and Human Feedback

Applied NLP, annotation and developer tools