Projects
Food Deal Finder / Reporter
This application is a Spring Boot app that contain CRUD functionality for "deals" that belong to an organization and set of locations. I got the idea because keeping track of all the Taco Tuesdays around Boston became cumbersome.
So while I started building this application primarily as sandbox to try out features of Spring Boot, Spring Data, JPA, MySQL, Maven, Lombok and JUnit, as I built it I started to like the idea of actually productizing it more and more.
The application showcases how easy it is to implement simple microservices with Spring Boot. It contains what I consider to be best practice in terms of separating out a controller layer from the service and persistence layers. Right now, its basically just a CRUD application, but I hope to add a permissions / user model, gamification, search, and a bunch of other features to it when I find the time. Also, branding. I would also like to use it to learn a diffferent cloud platform than AWS (perhaps Google) and build a front-end for it (I was thinking with Flutter). If you are interested in helping with that in your spare time, let me know!
The application showcases how easy it is to implement simple microservices with Spring Boot. It contains what I consider to be best practice in terms of separating out a controller layer from the service and persistence layers. Right now, its basically just a CRUD application, but I hope to add a permissions / user model, gamification, search, and a bunch of other features to it when I find the time. Also, branding. I would also like to use it to learn a diffferent cloud platform than AWS (perhaps Google) and build a front-end for it (I was thinking with Flutter). If you are interested in helping with that in your spare time, let me know!
Source CodeWildstyle Generator
This Maven test library can be used to generate POJOs with randomized values during automated testing. I built it because I was frustrated there was nothing like FactoryGirl for the Java ecosystem.
The library is published to Maven central with version 0.1. I felt it needed a lot more functionality and testing before it deserved V1.0. The README in the repository is actually pretty good at showcasing what it can do. I also use this as an example of how Design By Contract code and contracts look.
The library is published to Maven central with version 0.1. I felt it needed a lot more functionality and testing before it deserved V1.0. The README in the repository is actually pretty good at showcasing what it can do. I also use this as an example of how Design By Contract code and contracts look.
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This Website
I built this website using Middleman, HAML, SASS, CoffeeScript, and GitHub Pages.
This website is meant to serve the same purpose as a resume, except implemented as a website. I think basic HTML/CSS/JS should be a part of a developers toolkit, and this gives me a way of doing some of that every so often as a backend focused engineer. I tried to design the website in a more modern style with horizontal sections that would lead the reader through in an easy-to-read way. Design has never been my strong point and I would certainly appreciate any input you had to offer in terms of the design and UX of this website!
This website is meant to serve the same purpose as a resume, except implemented as a website. I think basic HTML/CSS/JS should be a part of a developers toolkit, and this gives me a way of doing some of that every so often as a backend focused engineer. I tried to design the website in a more modern style with horizontal sections that would lead the reader through in an easy-to-read way. Design has never been my strong point and I would certainly appreciate any input you had to offer in terms of the design and UX of this website!
Fantasy Sports Lineup Generator
This project is a simple Java application that can generate lineups for daily fantasy sports contests.
When I first got into daily fantasy sports, all I could think about was how lineup generation was a search optimization problem.
So I built this just to scratch the itch of knowing if I could make something efficient enough to actually complete computation given the sheer number of permutations of a fantasy sports lineup.
So far, all I have done is the easy part of this project. That is, setting up a harness to pull daily fantasy sports data from a chosen provider (DraftKings or FanDuel for example), and generating a lineup for a chosen contest that provider offers. The harder part is creating a good model for player value. Just as a proof of concept the algorithm can generate a lineup, I used the player's average fantasy points value which is included in the provider's data. That is not a particularly good predictor though, since it doesn't take into account injuries, hot streaks, opponents, etc... I am hoping to one day create an ML model for the predictions when I find the time (and ML is cheaper).
So far, all I have done is the easy part of this project. That is, setting up a harness to pull daily fantasy sports data from a chosen provider (DraftKings or FanDuel for example), and generating a lineup for a chosen contest that provider offers. The harder part is creating a good model for player value. Just as a proof of concept the algorithm can generate a lineup, I used the player's average fantasy points value which is included in the provider's data. That is not a particularly good predictor though, since it doesn't take into account injuries, hot streaks, opponents, etc... I am hoping to one day create an ML model for the predictions when I find the time (and ML is cheaper).
