Hey, I'm
Joe Poehlein
I build things and investigate problems.
Engineer who does research. I write software, run experiments, and publish what I find. The problems change — atmospheric science, matrix completion, full-stack apps — but the approach stays the same: build it, measure it, ship it.
Latest Research
- Same Field, Opposite Winners: Representation-Dependent Recoverability in Spatial ReconstructionJuly 2026
- Do the Universe's Empty Spaces Look the Way We Predict?July 2026
- Can Netflix Math Map the Ocean? A Negative Result Worth SharingMay 2026
Latest Posts
- Same Workload, Opposite Throughput: A Minecraft-Shaped Speedup for Scientific InterpolationJuly 2026
- Teaching a Local Model to Review Code: Building the Evaluation FoundationJuly 2026
- Owned Compute as Insurance: What a Local Model Actually Has to ProveJuly 2026
- When the Fine-Tune Loses: An Honest EndingJuly 2026
- Adapting a Local Model: Reasoning, Hypothesis, and a LoRA/QLoRA PrimerJuly 2026
About Me
I'm Joe Poehlein — a US-born software engineer and dual citizen based in Spain, with over a decade of experience solving problems across domains. I don't pick a stack and look for problems to match it. I find the problem first, then use whatever gets the job done.
What I'm good at is seeing the connections other people miss — the patterns that repeat across fields that have no business talking to each other. Atmospheric science, matrix completion, AI orchestration, full-stack applications. Different worlds, same underlying structures.
Dig into my research and writing to see what I mean.
MU (無) void · KEN (見) to see · SHI (師) master of
The glass is the looking glass. You see through it into the void — and the void reveals structure.