Sean P. Robertson

@spro @sprobertson

I am a front/back/deep-end engineer, with a skill for turning nascent ideas into working web and mobile applications, and an interest in applying ML and AI concepts to practical use cases.

• I wrote the NLP From Scratch series of PyTorch tutorials, focusing on building language models to classify, generate, and translate text.
• Before the Transformers explosion I created a recursive RNN intent parser to translate complex phrases into home automation commands.
• Before PyTorch was released I braved learning Lua Torch to make a seq2seq intent parser for the same purpose.
• Learning Lua also led me to creating a plugin for dynamic Nginx proxy configuration using Redis.
• I made my own shell-like language using JSON as the main data type, supporting novel concepts such as parallel pipes.
• Sometimes I wander away from the big computer to build things with small computers, like a multi-modal USB knob.