Projects

Four case studies — the stories I tell in interviews, with architecture and tradeoffs.

Each is a STAR-ready deep dive. Click through for problem → stack → architecture → result.

Banking • Spring Boot • Kafka

High-throughput Contract Processing

36% faster via @Async/@Transactional + batching, Kafka via API Gateway on GAE. Mar 2025.

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Springer Dec 2024

Autoencoder-Huffman Ensemble

5.5–24.2× on MNIST/CIFAR-10 with minimal loss. Published Springer.

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Flask • 16★/16 forks

Credit Card Fraud Detection

97.6% acc, 89.6% recall • SMOTE, Docker/Heroku. Sep 2020.

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PyTorch • SeResNext

Leukemia Detection API

~90% on microscopic images via SeResNext, Docker Hub. Jun–Sep 2019.

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All on github.com/saarques • Springer: Autoencoder-Huffman