Software engineer heading into ML research. Five years from now, I want to be one

WhatI'mdoingrightnow.

LEARNING

AI Journey — word embeddings, by hand

Deep in the representations chapter of AI Journey: how words become vectors — co-occurrence, word2vec, skip-gram, negative sampling — implemented in NumPy before any framework touches it. The rule stands: never train a model I can’t explain.

BUILDING

JobMatch — Demoday, July 2026

Shipping the matching platform for Demoday: local CV extraction with Ollama, offers aggregated from four sources, an explainable 0–100 score.

WRITING

The Substack journal

Writing the first entries of the road-to-the-PhD journal — what I learn, what breaks, what changes my mind. It plugs into the Journal section the moment it goes live.

RoadnotestowardthePhD.

Substack

Selectedwork.

Let'stalk.

Open to ML research collaborations, and quiet conversations about the path

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