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Welcome. I’m a developer with expertise in data science, quantitative finance and algorithm design, answering real-world questions through computation, optimization and visualization.

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  • April 21, 2026

    OCR Image Search

    I recently built an app that scans a folder of images and makes the text inside them fully searchable, using Flask and Tesseract OCR. This could be helpful for anyone 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


  • August 1, 2025

    Data Science CV

    I published my professional resume at cv.blakerayvid.com, turning the Word file I had been using into a plain 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


  • June 1, 2025

    Compare Stock Returns

    This page lets you enter multiple stock tickers (eg. AAPL, MSFT, GOOGL) and even portfolio expressions (eg. 0.5*NVDA, 0.25*AMZN, 0.25*KO) and compare their returns visually against a benchmark (like SPY). 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


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D3 Desmos Express Flask Gemini API Google Maps API HTML/CSS/JS JQuery MATLAB Matplotlib Netlify NetworkX NLP Node NumPy P5 Pandas PostgreSQL Python QuantConnect Railway React Scikit-Learn SciPy TensorFlow Tesseract YFinance API

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