Noel Victor

Receipts

Shipped,
in production.

A decade of greenfield builds, ports, research prototypes and ETL pipelines. Most of it was built inside a team, for an employer or their client. The write-ups describe what I did, not what the company claimed.

  • 6Wharton Research Data Services
  • 5Tembo (acquired by Hoonuit)
  • 3Edge On Demand
  • 1Solutions for Progress / Communally
  • 1Pixel Play Dream (self-directed)
  1. 01 Wharton Research Data Services Text analytics that survived contact with production An NLP pipeline over SEC filings, news, social media and earnings transcripts. Half of an award-winning system. Read the case study
  2. 02 Wharton Research Data Services 10 terabytes of news, ingested 10x faster A 10 TB news corpus with 25 GB landing every day. The naive importer was never going to hold. Read the case study
  3. 03 Tembo (acquired by Hoonuit) Sub-30-second charts over millions of combinations A data explorer for the Texas Education Agency, with a hard performance budget and no option to pregenerate. Read the case study
  4. 04 Wharton Research Data Services One search box over four financial text corpora News, social media, SEC filings and earnings transcripts, across different search backends, behind a single interface. Read the case study
  5. 05 Edge On Demand A universal data model for a market that has no standard Energy suppliers each send prices their own way, by email, daily. This turned that mess into something brokers could query. Read the case study
  6. 06 Tembo (acquired by Hoonuit) A permissioned CMS, shipped inside one summer break San Antonio schools needed to collect data before term started. I led the build and picked the stack that made the date. Read the case study
  7. 07 Tembo (acquired by Hoonuit) One API over five incompatible data sources RethinkDB, Postgres, SQL Server, Salesforce and third-party APIs, all feeding the school report card frontends. Read the case study
  8. 08 Tembo (acquired by Hoonuit) Shipping static pages to protect the IP inside them A Jamstack prototype that let school districts self-host our analytics without receiving the logic that produced it. Read the case study
  9. 09 Edge On Demand A reporting framework so dashboards stopped breaking each other Client activity dashboards built on a small internal framework, so a new report could not take down an existing one. Read the case study
  10. 10 Edge On Demand A proposal workflow brokers could not get lost in A finite state workflow connecting energy brokers and suppliers, with the next step always visible. Read the case study
  11. 11 Wharton Research Data Services 40 tools migrated, and a robot to check them A Bootstrap 3 to 4 migration across the main WRDS application, with a screenshot tool built to make QA survivable. Read the case study
  12. 12 Wharton Research Data Services 14 finance teaching tools, built with the people teaching Yield curves, options pricing, topic modeling and sentiment analysis, turned into things a student can actually poke at. Read the case study
  13. 13 Wharton Research Data Services The first customer-facing usage reports at WRDS Prototype, report skeleton and interface design for reports that went out to subscribing institutions. Read the case study
  14. 14 Tembo (acquired by Hoonuit) Keeping the Texas School Report launch standing up Scaling, deploying and firefighting a GCP microservice stack through its highest traffic day. Read the case study
  15. 15 Solutions for Progress / Communally A .NET to Django port, bugs included A deliberate one-to-one port of My Budget Coach, then a refactor into multi-tenancy for a national partner. Read the case study
  16. 16 Pixel Play Dream (self-directed) A physics puzzle game, made entirely solo Art, music and game logic, all of it mine. From the indie mobile puzzle era. Read the case study

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