Joseph McAllister

ML & Software Engineer | Brooklyn, NY

About Me

I'm currently a senior engineer on Coinbase's Machine Learning Platform team. In my free time, I enjoy playing tennis, acoustic guitar, reading, and building things.

Experience

  • Coinbase: Senior ML Engineer on the ML Platform team
  • Microsoft: Software Engineer working on Azure Data Factory
  • Roo Storage: Founder, exited
  • Cornell University: Computer Science, Varsity Tennis

How I Learned to Code

I love building things, which started with a few projects in high school and college:

  • Bachbot, my first ever program that generated a Bach chorale submitted for my AP Music Theory final project
  • Built and sold 200 Google Cardboards in high school
  • A DIY solar-powered, night-vision trailcam running on a Raspberry Pi to capture wildlife at night
  • Facial recognition program running on-device with a Raspberry Pi
  • An ML model to predict professional tennis match outcomes

What I'm Playing Around With Now

  • On-device TTS and LLM inference, especially on tiny devices like a Raspberry Pi
  • Some robotics noob projects...think stuff that requires a servo

Favorite Read

Ted Chiang's A Story of Your Life and Others

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