Welcome. I’m a developer with expertise in data science and quantitative finance, answering real-world questions through computation, optimization and visualization.
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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
Data Science CV
I published my resume at cv.blakerayvid.com, rewriting the Word file I used to use as 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 with
Compare Stock Returns
This page lets you enter multiple stock tickers (eg. AAPL, MSFT, GOOGL) and even portfolio expressions (eg. 1.75*NVDA+2.5*AMZN+5.5*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 the plots.