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JamesPaynter/README.md

Hi, I'm James

Melbourne | ML Engineer | Nature-published Astrophysicist

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Astrophysics PhD turned ML Engineer. I build production ML systems—embeddings, vector search, voice agents, autonomous coding systems. My background is Bayesian inference and statistical modeling, now applied to real-world engineering problems.


Current Projects

  • Mycelium – Open-source architecture for autonomous coding agents (24+ hour unattended runs)
  • FAANGmatch – Job matching platform indexing 15,000+ roles across top tech companies

Selected Work


Stack

ML/AI: PyTorch, FAISS, Transformers, Bayesian inference, RAG
Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, Lambda, Beanstalk), GCP, Terraform, Docker
Backend: FastAPI, Python
MLOps: GitHub Actions, model monitoring, inference optimization


PhD Astrophysics @ University of Melbourne | Stanford XCS234 Reinforcement Learning

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    Gamma-ray burst analysis library

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