Software Engineer
B.S. Mathematics (Concentration in Statistics)
Projects
The Reddit Street Journal (04/2022 – 01/2023)
- Engineered an autonomous Python pipeline that scrapes S&P 500 metadata from Wikipedia and cross-references it with Reddit's PRAW API to identify high-frequency equity mentions.
- Engineered a containerized scraper using Docker and GCP, migrating local data processing to a Cloud SQL backend with automated DataFrame ingestion and JSON caching for reliable, scheduled financial tracking.
- Developed a proprietary seasonality heuristic that adjusts sentiment scores based on historical sector performance trends (e.g., travel/energy shifts) to provide nuanced market insights.
- Integrated OpenAI’s GPT-4o with the Twitter API to generate context-aware, humorous financial commentary and automate real-time engagement with follower mentions.
- Implemented automated Git workflows to synchronize script outputs directly with a live web dashboard, ensuring continuous deployment of new market data.
- Twitter feed: @WSB_Journal
Portfolio: Personal Website (04/2022)
- Designed and developed a responsive personal website using HTML/CSS.
- Integrated an automatically updated Twitter feed sourced from a separate project.
- Continuously maintained and updated with new features.
Senior Project: “Autonomizing Affine Digraph Ciphers” (12/2019)
- Developed a Python tool using number theory and linear algebra to decrypt affine digraph ciphers.
- Authored a formal paper and gave a capstone presentation at the University of West Georgia.
Financial Spreadsheet Automation with xlwings
- Automated creation and population of financial spreadsheets using Python and the
xlwingslibrary.
Advanced Algorithms Project: Chess Engine (03/2022)
- Built a chess engine in Python as part of an advanced algorithms course at KSU.
- Implemented move logic, evaluation, and a basic decision-making engine.
Contact
Email: tuckeryazdani@gmail.com