#Whattup world⛰

I haven't written anything in a while and wanted to give an update. Partially to gloss over the technical side of things i am excited to be working on, partially to opine about how a new place can help you escape a rut and find clarity.

Recently, I did the exact opposite that every software engineer of late seems to want to do, I willingly (rather optimistically) left a sleepy surf town in southern California and moved to San Francisco to work in person with a team of awesome designers and engineers. So far, i'm loving it. There is a sick surf culture here with legit waves and mellow crowds, cool art and a lot of interesting people doing innovative things they are passionate about.

I also started a project with a good friend of mine from college that aims to help independent publishers (writers) connect with larger audiences. My friend just got his masters in data science / ML from George Washington and it is the first time we've gotten to work together. I'm stoked to say we both are excited about the project and moving at a fast pace.

So far what we have is a aws deployed graph database (Neo 4j) that contains a ton of tripples, a semi built out ( but still badass ) front end user multi-step creation form and profile homepage, and a FastApi API / python backend. We plan on incorporating some machine learning to help us classify user generated text with genre tags and compare it to popular fiction books. Once classified, users with preferences for similar popular works will be recommended works written and submitted by our platforms authors.

We have a ton of work left to do, A lot of cypher queries to write, front end to design and build out, models to deploy, ux testing to do, you name it - BUT I am happy to be owning the design and development of something that is mine, and contributing my time outside of work to something that is outside of work🤯.

All of this materialized after I made the decision to try something different and move to a new place I didn't think i'd like initially.