Welcome. I’m a versatile developer with expertise in data science, quantitative finance and algorithm design, answering real-world questions through computation, optimization and visualization.
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OCR Image Search
This Flask app scans a folder of images and makes the text inside them fully searchable, using open-source Tesseract OCR. This could be helpful for someone who has a massive folder of screenshots or scanned documents and wants to find what they need without uploading everything to a cloud service. This app runs 100% locally on your own machine. Instead…
Data Science CV
I published my professional resume at cv.blakerayvid.com, turning my old Word file into an HTML/CSS/JS document. It lists my skills, projects, work history, and provides a PDF download. I built it to give a fast, clear view of what I do. Thanks to this change, I can now maintain my resume with VSCode. 🔗 View on GitHub
Compare Stock Returns
This page lets you enter multiple stock tickers (eg. AAPL, MSFT, GOOGL) and even custom portfolio expressions (eg. 0.5*NVDA, 0.25*AMZN, 0.25*KO) and compare their performance against a benchmark (eg. SPY) over any time period. It’s built with Python and Flask on the backend. Data comes from Yahoo Finance via the yfinance library, pandas crunches the numbers, and matplotlib generates the…