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.
Built viral statistics, data engine platform reaching 1K+ users in first 24 hours, processing personalized year-in-review with 15+ metrics. Build with TypeScript/Next.js with GraphQL API integration, caching layers to bypass rate limits, and dynamic user-level routing.
Serverless secret manager service built for developers who work with AI agents.
A peer-to-peer universal clipboard for your terminal. Copy on one machine, paste on another..
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.
Visual React + Bun app to simulate pathfinding algorithms and on the fly maze generation on a grid.
Chrome extension to promote better posture habits with personalized reminders and friendly cat animations.
Blog
Connect
Feel free to contact me :) owenhochwald@gmail.com