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Owen Hochwald

Software and Machine Learning Engineer

Disciplined CS student building backend systems and integrating ML to solve real-world problems.

Education

Work Experience

Selected Projects

RecMind (WIP)

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.

Research on LLM Architecture, Prompting & Interpretability (WIP)

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.

Shakespeare GPT

Custom trained transformer based on the paper "Attention Is All You Need" to generate original Shakespearean-style text using PyTorch.

AdmitifyAI

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..

Aftrbrnr

Open-source, company-wide time-tracking end-to-end web app built with NextJs and PostgreSQL.

Pawsture Pal

Chrome extension to promote better posture habits with personalized reminders and friendly cat animations.

Blog

Connect

Feel free to contact me :) owenhochwald@gmail.com