Macklin

Hello, I'm Macklin.

I'm a software engineer. My lifelong goal is to create experiences that leave a lasting impact.

Projects

Notolibra

Experience

  1. Founding Full-Stack EngineerSacred Texts

    Built the content migration, reader and analytics for the September 2026 relaunch of a 20-year-old archive of 3,000+ books, which reached about 295k engaged readers in its first month.

    • Migrated 3,071 books (141,765 pages) from hand-written HTML into Postgres, using LLM-first extraction with schema-validated output and per-page provenance.
    • Designed and built the book reader, library and category pages, with full-chapter SSR edge-cached on Cloudflare Workers.
    • Built first-party analytics and tracing (ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, Grafana) that separated real readers from bot traffic and found the root causes of launch-week incidents.

    SvelteKitPostgresCloudflare WorkersClickHouseOpenTelemetry

  2. Undergraduate ResearcherAIEA Lab, UC Santa Cruz

    Studied how large language models reason, reading and presenting more than 30 foundational papers on chain-of-thought and LLM reasoning.

    • Read and presented papers weekly, from chain-of-thought prompting and self-consistency to Tree of Thoughts and the Physics of Language Models series.
    • Reproduced published GSM8K chain-of-thought results for Llama 3 and Qwen 2.5 within about 2 points, on GPU nodes in the Nautilus Kubernetes cluster.
    • Wrote the Kubernetes deployment, volume and secret YAML for those runs, plus scripts to sync code to pods, forward ports and download results.
    • Was given access to the Nautilus cluster to continue my own Chinese-to-English fine-tuning project, where Yi-1.5-34B trained on self-curated data reached BLEU 21.73 and chrF 48.00.

    PythonPyTorchHugging FaceKubernetesDocker

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