I'm David, a software engineer with a strong background in machine learning and startups. I'm pretty active on stackoverflow, having literally checked in every day for 5 years. Ping me if I can help with upvoting a question.
I am deeply curious about new technologies, and how and where these can be used to drive impact. Some topics I've covered in the past:
- 📫 Machine Learning: I started before TensorFlow was a thing, and back when people were using Torch, not PyTorch (It was running on Lua..). Almost became a contributor for TF, but becoming one is too tedious (lol, you guys should change sth if you read this). Even ended up writing my own neural-net framework using numpy (following Karpathy's CS231n guide back in 2016). I did a lot of research in my free time, but also with various departments at the ETH Zürich Institute of Machine Learning, and published my work in an ACL EMNLP workshop.
- 🌱 Software Engineering: I wrote my first website when I was 13. It was supposed to be community-driven knowledge base tailored towards the International Baccalaureate. Back then writing HTML, CSS (and PHP, lol), was a thing. I ended up learning React, NextJS, Flask, Python, and some Rust for backend as well (you could say that I learned english that way as well). I like properly tested, readable, and well-maintainable code, writing proper CICD pipelines, and some Docker-pipelining.
- ⚡ CTF: Although I'm a complete n00b, I really enjoy Capture the Flag challenges. Delving into systems I don't understand well, and especially using probabilistic patterns to exploit is always interesting. I was shortly part of the ETH Zürich FlagBot team in 2017.
Oh, if you prefer all the business terminology and hyping all the achievements one has ever come close to, you might enjoy my linkedin profile better.
Please reach out to me on LinkedIn for any inquiries. I like to connect with like-minded, driven, and passionate people, and support you in any way I can.