Liz Wade

SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Problem
There are many fairly sedentary people who know they ought to walk more but never quite get round to it.
Solution: SOFA TO STRIDER
A mobile-first app that overcomes common hurdles by showing you when, where and why to walk.
Problem
Our teammate Alistair has had his Seat Ibiza for 4 years and he still doesn't know how to turn the fog lights on.
Solution: MY MECHANIC
A RAG chatbot that applies the power of ChatGPT to Alistair's car manual, giving friendly, correct, sourced answers without hallucinations.
Problem
A job I was interested in wanted someone who had built things with Flask.
Solution: FLASK IN FIVE HOURS
Prove I could get to grips with a new framework in less than a day.

Problem
Most scheduling problems are NP-complete, so cannot be solved by any known polymomial-time algorithms.
Solution: EVOLUTIONARY AI
In 2014, I designed and built this genetic algorithm from scratch that outperformed a hill-climbing algorithm.
Problem
It was 2018, and computers were still pretty bad at understanding the content of pictures.
Solution: MACHINE LEARNING CLASSIFIER
Using transfer learning, I built and trained a new AI to successfully classify flower images by species.
Problem
Companies need to know who their best customers are so they can target their most lucrative prospects.
Solution: SEGMENTATION
I cleaned, scaled, vectorized, and clustered population data then compared it to client data to inform the marketing strategy.

Problem
IBM has been responsible for some of technology's biggest breakthroughs, but newer companies were getting the limelight.
Solution: "A LEADING BRAND, A LASTING BRAND"
I wrote this award-winning paper, which saw IBM crowned one of the five most effective brands in the world.
Problem
Developers who are used to Javascript sometimes resent the time it can take to meet Typescript's requirements.
Solution: "WHY WE HAVE TYPESCRIPT" SONG
I wrote and recorded this song and video to remind people why the effort is worth it.