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Bulk uploads beat dashboards: cutting remittance TAT 80%
Ops lived in Excel. So the automation went to Excel — row-level validation, one ledger, 80% faster turnarounds.
Mar 2025 · 4 min
Benchmark 10 classifiers before trusting one
My diabetes-screening side project compares 10 algorithms plus an ensemble — and publishes the full table, losers included.
Sep 2026 · 5 min
Pending transactions need a tracer
SWIFT messages go quiet after sending. A Tracer Service watching the pending pile and nudging both sides fixed that.
Nov 2024 · 4 min
Corporate ChatGPT is blocked. So I built ToolChat.
A Gemini-powered chat clone for locked-down office networks: threads, bookmarks, summaries — and an honest proxy experiment.
Jun 2026 · 7 min
I built my own bitly — with the analytics Bitly hides.
Custom short codes, a visit-logging pipeline, and an analytics dashboard behind basic auth. Plus test scripts, because side projects deserve them too.
Feb 2026 · 7 min
Group chat on REST and polling. No WebSockets. (On purpose.)
Two repos, one honest architecture: FastAPI REST + React polling with paginated history. WebSockets can wait until the room needs them.
Dec 2025 · 6 min
Streaming LLMs through a 20-line edge proxy.
An edge-runtime route that streams SSE from an OpenAI-compatible upstream straight to the browser. No buffering, no key leaks.
Apr 2026 · 5 min