Senior at USC studying computer science and business administration. Looking for full-time operator roles at startups: strategy, BizOps, deployment. I take a problem from question to running system. Write-ups for everything below, including what state each is in, are at lukeghanna.com.
- Beacon: a deal-sourcing workbench that learns its screening rules from the analysts who reject firms. Built in Palantir's American Tech Fellowship. beacon.lukeghanna.com
- Kalshi Weather Edge: tested whether weather forecasts beat Kalshi's temperature markets. They don't: 7,440 settled signals, and a calibration gate that never let it trade. Source private; results and docs at the link.
- Personal Finance Coach: my full financial state in one append-only ledger, with every action checked against the plan's gates before it happens. Source private; engineering docs at the link.
- Clippers Command Center: Clippers analytics where every stored insight carries the query that proves it, over six seasons of league-wide box scores. clippers.lukeghanna.com
- Circuit: ten daily puzzle games under one streak, where each puzzle is drafted ahead by a cron and plays only once a person approves it. circuit.lukeghanna.com Source private; write-up at the link.
- Shedquarters: skill ratings for a house beer-die and spikeball league, scored offline-first from a phone at the table. die.lukeghanna.com
- Solitaire: ad-free Klondike where a solver proves every deal winnable before you see it, then backs the hints and the rewind. solitaire.lukeghanna.com
- OnAir: a macOS live-sports player that fails over between ranked HLS streams without the picture ever going black, across six leagues and a live-channel guide.
- Mapped: a map-first geography quiz for countries, flags, capitals and seas, with a flag drill and leaderboards the server checks by replaying every move. mapped.lukeghanna.com
- Aglow: the Christmas Tree Light Up puzzle, rebuilt so every connection sends light flowing through the tree, with a Daily Tree, a Christmas radio and a leaderboard the server checks by replaying every run. aglow.lukeghanna.com
- BJS: a native iOS blackjack trainer on a tested Swift package: strategy, counting, house edge, progress and a shoe simulator are built; not released yet.