Justin Pyron

Hey, I'm Justin πŸ‘‹

I'm an ML engineer who likes building things and understanding why they work. This site is a collection of projects I've built to feed that curiosity. Some to sharpen my understanding of a topic, others just because they sounded fun to make.

I studied math at Northwestern and computational math at Stanford. After a few years working in San Francisco, I moved to Paris to learn French and experience life in Europe. I'm now back home in Texas after more than a decade away.

Outside of work, I like hiking, cooking, playing tennis, and getting my heart broken by the underperformance of the Texas A&M football program.

Projects

Simple Translate

Simple Translate

My attempt at re-creating Google Translate from scratch. An English-to-French neural machine translation model that uses an encoder-decoder architecture.

NLP Fine-tuning PyTorch
Football Rank

Football Rank

Custom method for ranking college football teams inspired by Google’s PageRank algorithm.

Graph theory Linear algebra
Presidents RAG

Presidents RAG

Simple RAG system that answers questions about US presidents based on their Wikipedia articles.

RAG Embeddings Information retrieval