Hayes Thomas

MS Machine Learning student at Johns Hopkins University

Chicago, IL · CT (UTC-6)

Johns Hopkins University

English, Arabic

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Overview

Final-year student interested in quantitative finance. Recently built a peer tutoring marketplace. Comfortable with embeddings and Python. Marathoner (6 so far).

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Mentors who have done this before
Speaking or podcast invitations
Questions about data pipelines
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Replies on weekday evenings

Skills

Sparkrecommender systemsPythonembeddingsranking

LearningLearning something

closes in 3 months

Learning embeddings - want a mentor for monthly reviews

Goal: Build a portfolio project in data pipelines that I'd be proud to show.
Where I am now: Beginner
Ideal mentor: Someone who has worked in data pipelines for a few years
Cadence: Every two weeks
What I can offer back: Help with frontend work

Working on a carbon footprint calculator for small shops. An hour a month would make a big difference.

Chicago, IL · remote OKembeddingspythonrecommender systems

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CollaboratingLooking to collaborate

closes in 3 months

Side project in food delivery: need a backend engineer to build with

Project: Food delivery: need a backend engineer to build with
Skills needed: Writing, Data
Time commitment: Weekends
Outcome: Small product with real users

Weekends only. Async-first.

Chicago, ILpythonrecommender systemsranking

Open

Projects

Data pipelines benchmark

2024

Reproducible benchmarks comparing recommender systems and ranking on real workloads.

Side project: a commute planner

2023

Built with Python and Spark. 2310 people used it last year.

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Education

Johns Hopkins University
MS, Machine Learning
2026 - 2028

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