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Kelvin R. Tobias

@kelvinintechGreenville, NCJoined December 2024

Engineering Leader | Writer | Software Developer | Advocate for Neurodiversity

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Tough Vikings Take Delayed Icebaths 🧊

Learn the machine learning lifecycle with a Viking analogy.

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Oct 19

I Scored a 612 on AWS ML Engineer Associate (Passing is 720). Here's the AI Prep Pipeline I'm Building So It Doesn't Happen Again.

I sat MLA-C02 and scored a 612. Passing is 720. On paper, that's a fail. But here's the part I'm actually proud of: I never watched a single minute of the Udemy course that came with my practice quest

16 min readkelvinintech.hashnode.dev

Sep 25

The Room You Walk Into

A few weeks ago I taught a prompt engineering workshop to a room of high school students in Kinston, North Carolina. One of them told me AI felt intimidating. Another said he uses it every day but has

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Jul 12

Hello_LLM: Calling Claude from Python, C#, and R — Why Biotech Engineers Need All Three

Why biotech engineers need fluency across three languages. Build the same LLM integration in Python, C#, and R to understand ecosystem trade-offs.

6 min readkelvinintech.hashnode.dev

Apr 22

PyTorch Zero to One: Why I Built a CNN from Scratch (and What It Taught Me That Transfer Learning Wouldn't)

A software engineer's hands-on approach to understanding CNN feature extraction, regularization, and overfitting — no pretrained backbones allowed.

6 min readkelvinintech.hashnode.dev

Mar 28

Kelvin R. Tobias

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Kelvin R. Tobias's blogs

Tough Vikings Take Delayed Icebaths 🧊

I Scored a 612 on AWS ML Engineer Associate (Passing is 720). Here's the AI Prep Pipeline I'm Building So It Doesn't Happen Again.

The Room You Walk Into

Hello_LLM: Calling Claude from Python, C#, and R — Why Biotech Engineers Need All Three

PyTorch Zero to One: Why I Built a CNN from Scratch (and What It Taught Me That Transfer Learning Wouldn't)

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Kelvin R. Tobias

About

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Kelvin R. Tobias's blogs

Tough Vikings Take Delayed Icebaths 🧊

I Scored a 612 on AWS ML Engineer Associate (Passing is 720). Here's the AI Prep Pipeline I'm Building So It Doesn't Happen Again.

The Room You Walk Into

Hello_LLM: Calling Claude from Python, C#, and R — Why Biotech Engineers Need All Three

PyTorch Zero to One: Why I Built a CNN from Scratch (and What It Taught Me That Transfer Learning Wouldn't)