Disciplined CS student building backend systems and integrating ML to solve real-world problems.
Education
Work Experience
Software Developer I
Cambio Earth Systems
Incoming January 2026 - August 2026
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.
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..
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.
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