Disciplined CS student building distributed full-stack systems and integrating ML to solve real-world problems.
Education
Work Experience
Software Developer
UBC Launch Pad
September 2025 - Present
Software Engineer Intern
Stealth Startup
July 2025 - September 2025
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 real-time article knowledge base recommendation system using a Go backend, RabbitMQ, and a RAG pipeline. Features a pub/sub ingestion point and embedded vector store for fast semantic search.
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 in Typescript, Nextjs, and React.
Terminal native HTTP / Load testing client w/ 200k req/sec with VIM style keybindings, acting as a Postman & K6 Alternative. Built in Golang.
Custom trained transformer based on the paper "Attention Is All You Need" to generate original Shakespearean-style text using PyTorch.
Full-featured Java Swing GUI map application for Game of Thrones. Developed with TDD (97% coverage) with OOP principles in mind.
Open-source, company-wide time-tracking end-to-end web app built with NextJs and PostgreSQL.
A real-time bathroom queue management for roomates. No more akward door kocking. Ever. Uses Golang, Typescript, Redis, and React.
Chrome extension to promote better posture habits with personalized reminders and friendly cat animations.
Blog
Connect
Feel free to contact me :) owenhochwald@gmail.com