Disciplined CS student building backend systems and integrating ML to solve real-world problems.
Education
Work Experience
Full Stack / Machine Learning Engineer Intern
Stealth Startup
July 2025 - Present
Coding Team Co-pilot Internship
UBC Visual Cognition Lab
April 2025 - Present
Backend / Machine Learning Engineer Intern
Insomniac Design, Inc.
June 2023 - Aug 2023
Selected Projects
A POC real-time article recommendation system using a Go backend, RabbitMQ, and a RAG pipeline. Features a REST API ingestion point and embedded vector store in Pinecone for fast semantic search and recommendations.
Collaborative research with a 4-person team and a Stanford alum mentor on novel techniques for in LLMs. Findings are being prepared for submission to leading conferences such as ICLR and EACL.
Custom trained transformer based on the paper "Attention Is All You Need" to generate original Shakespearean-style text using PyTorch.
5 person team collaberative full-stack project to build a tool taking a holistic approach to college admissions guidance, powered by AI-driven insights written..
Open-source, company-wide time-tracking end-to-end web app built with NextJs and PostgreSQL.
Chrome extension to promote better posture habits with personalized reminders and friendly cat animations.
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Feel free to contact me :) owenhochwald@gmail.com