Writing
Notes on optimization, ML, and building things.
How Much Should You Order? A Stochastic Optimization Demo You Can Play With
I built a web app that solves a textbook inventory problem in a non-textbook way: it optimizes a reorder policy over thousands of simulated demand futures instead of one forecast.
9 min readStochastic OptimizationMonte CarloInventoryOptimizing Your Time Off: A PTO Planner Built on CP-SAT
I built a web app that treats vacation planning as a constrained optimization problem. CP-SAT sweeps a Pareto frontier over vacation-block counts and hands back three strategies to pick from.
4 min readOptimizationCP-SATOR-ToolsBuilding a Dual-Hop VPN with Terraform and V2Ray
Ahead of a trip where I knew everyday tools would be blocked, I built a multi-hop VPN from scratch with Terraform, Docker, V2Ray, and Nginx, and recently open-sourced it.
4 min readTerraformAWSNetworkingBackorder Prediction for the Defense Logistics Agency
My deep-learning contribution to a Defense Logistics Agency study: an LSTM sequence-to-sequence model in TensorFlow forecasting 12-month backorders across ~30K SKUs.
Time SeriesMachine LearningDefense