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Owen Hochwald

Building

distributed systems

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Work Experience

Selected Projects

GoTUIBubbleTeaGithub ActionsHTTP
Volt

130+ star terminal HTTP load tester. Hits 200k req/sec with Vim keybindings — a Postman and k6 alternative built natively for the shell. Written in Go.

GoRabbitMQpgvectorRAG
RecMind

Real-time recommendation engine using Go, RabbitMQ pub/sub, and a RAG pipeline with an embedded vector store for sub-10ms semantic search over articles.

TypeScriptNext.jsGraphQL
Aniwatch Wrapped

Went viral on first deploy — 1,000 users in 24 hours. Spotify Wrapped for anime: 15+ personalized year-in-review metrics via GraphQL with caching to bypass rate limits.

TypeScriptNext.jsReact
AdmitifyAI

Led frontend on a 5-person team building an AI-driven college admissions platform. TypeScript, Next.js, shipped to production.

TypeScriptServerlessAWS
Egg Carton

Serverless secret manager for developers shipping AI agents. Store, rotate, and retrieve API keys without leaking them into model context.

PythonPyTorchTransformers
Shakespeare GPT

Trained a transformer from scratch on the complete works of Shakespeare, following "Attention Is All You Need". Pure PyTorch, no pretrained weights.

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I'm looking for high-signal engineering roles — distributed systems, infra, or anything where performance matters. Graduating UBC 2027. If you're building something hard, reach out.