Isaac Salzman

Software Engineer
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About Me

New-grad software engineer focused on building AI/ML features that ship. I study Computer Science (B.S.) and Mathematics (B.A.) at Sonoma State and have hands-on experience with Python, data pipelines, and LLM-powered prototypes from internships and campus work.

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Highlighted projects

Selected work and longer builds.

Shorelark Expanded

Rust + WebAssembly evolution simulator with neural-network agents, genetic algorithms, predator-prey co-evolution, and 7 per-generation fitness/survival metrics.

Neural NetworksRustJavaScriptWebAssembly

PCformer

Transformer-based cell type classification pipeline built on a foundation model pre-trained on 500K+ cells (code private).

TransformersPythonML PipelinesPyTorch

Othello AI

Browser-based Othello/Reversi AI using minimax with alpha-beta pruning.

HeuristicsPythonRustJavaScript

Grid Vision Reasoning System

3-stage Detectron2 vision pipeline (segmentation, grid mapping, decision logic) for grid-based image tasks (code private).

Computer VisionDeep LearningDetectron2PyTorch

Practice projects

Problem-solving and small experiments.

Daily Programmer A collection of problems and solutions from r/DailyProgrammer. Advent of Code My solutions to the annual Advent of Code programming event. DFA Playground Table-driven DFA scanners and tokenizers for text parsing.
Dutch Flag Performance comparisons of different Dutch National Flag implementations in Rust. Sudoku Solver Depth-first search solver for 9×9 Sudoku puzzles.

Technologies

Languages + tools I use most.

Languages

Rust Rust Python Python C++ C++ C C MySQL MySQL

Tools

Linux Linux Git Git Bash Bash Neovim Neovim Vim Vim Scikit-learn Scikit-learn Pandas Pandas PyTorch PyTorch LaTeX LaTeX Markdown Markdown
Dotfiles I maintain a personal dotfiles repo for my Neovim, shell, and terminal workflow.