Writing

Rank 94 at the Amazon ML Challenge, or: how not to compare 6.7 trillion pairs

Ten million messy business records, 72 hours, and a metric that punishes overconfidence. What actually moved the score, and what was merely fashionable.

We won the Adani Powermind Hackathon. My model was 4x worse than I thought.

Our team won with an energy-forecasting platform. I built the forecaster, reported a dazzling 0.65% error, and later discovered the dazzle was a leak. Here is the autopsy, and the honest number.

1st runner-up at WebOsmotic: round one banned AI, round two required it

Twenty people shortlisted from resumes, then two rounds with opposite rules: build a RAG API by hand in two hours, then fix a broken production codebase with an AI agent riding shotgun.

WWT Unravel 2026: a solo Top 10, and an interview that read my resume back to me

Two online assessments, a Top 10 finish as a one-person team, and a pre-placement interview that taught me more than the offer would have.