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Gartner

Hackathon: Machine Learning

Gartner announced they were going to host a company-wide hackathon to be held in May of 2019. I proposed a machine learning proof-of-concept to address the low quality of the pros and cons featured on our new reviews page. While leading the project, I thought it was important that everyone be able to pursue whatever approach they saw fit to learn the skills they desired to learn.

In the end, we all mostly got results of one kind or another. We learned a few things along the way. And everyone lost to the team we all knew we would lose to. We went on to implement our solution on the live site.

FinanceGenius

Observer: FG Admin Updates

The user story goes something like this: As an admin, I want updates to FinanceGenius LOS admin settings to propagate to the customer-facing LG portal so loans funnel in seamlessly.

FinanceGenius

Repair Broken Leads

The fine folks at *terrible contractor we were using that I will not call out by name* decided that if a lead funneling in from LoanappGenius (LG) did not transmit to a client’s FG LOS correctly, a cron would try again five minutes later. With any application, things can go wrong. With LG, things do go wrong. I start by interpreting mysterious and totally ambiguous error status codes. If I haven’t hooked you by this point, keep reading anyway.

FinanceGenius

LoanappGenius Mapping

A simple goal of fixing the mapping of a few fields in a customer-facing application to properly transmit their values through a non-trivial API network essentially became a sprint-long debug session because the contractor we hired was insane.

3D Artillery Game

I recalled an old turn-based two-player computer game where players took turns firing missiles at each other’s base. You would specify the angle of fire and the game would trace out the path of the projectile through the air as gravity pulled it down to the surface to explode. It was a two-dimensional game that would randomly seed base positions atop varying topography. I set for myself the goal of coding this game in three dimensions. As a classically trained meteorologist, I also added air resistance and random wind fields.