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TrueCar AI: Solving Car Dealers’ Biggest Challenge
Time is money – and one of the most significant ways for dealers to waste both is chasing bad leads. Typically, the biggest problem for dealers isn’t getting enough leads, but rather, how to correctly manage the many they do have and how to distinguish the good leads from the bad ones. Source: Cox Automotive Read more
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A TrueCar Employee’s Car-Buying Adventure
Lessons from Navigating the Car-Buying Process as an Insider The car-buying process can be rough. Even today, finding the right car for you and getting it at a reasonable price can seem daunting. I’ve been at TrueCar for six years, working in Software Engineering, and I just bought a new car in December 2024. I Read more
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Video: Lightning Talks – Computer Vision YOLO -Getting started with Image Object Detection in Yolov5
Lightning Talks are short, informative, and somewhat informal presentations designed to share ideas, concepts, best practices, or basically anything you think might be of interest.. I run a series of Lightning Talks for TrueCar. This is an excerpt of one of those talks If you would like to learn more about Lightning Talks I wrote a Read more
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Video: Lightning Talks – OCR Image pre-processing -Teaching a computer to read from a video game
Lightning Talks are short, informative, and somewhat informal presentations designed to share ideas, concepts, best practices, or basically anything you think might be of interest.. I run a series of Lightning Talks for TrueCar. This is an excerpt of one of those talks If you would like to learn more about Lightning Talks I wrote Read more
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The Future of Engineering: Harnessing the Power of AI Prompts
Evolving from simple Google searches to mastering AI prompt writing. One of the most valuable skills in my career as an engineer has been the ability to properly construct a Google search to find the answer I’m looking for. Site-specific searches (site:reddit.com), wrapping required terms in quotes, or using the (-) minus operator to exclude Read more
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Lightning Talks: Making Presenting Less Scary and More Fun
What are the benefits? How do I get started? How do I keep it interesting? Lightning Talks are short presentations, usually between 5 and 10 minutes long, that focus on just a few key points. The goal is to cover the most critical information only and get folks excited to learn more. At TrueCar, I Read more
About me
I’ve been in Software Engineering for 25 years. The first 10 I was heads down coding. For the last 15 I’ve been in leadership roles. I’ve continued to write code on the side because I genuinely still love it. For my daytime job I manage several engineering teams for TrueCar. I’m also an avid rock climber and PC gamer.
Other stuff I do
NW Market Prices – I built this site for the game New World. It displays data from a Trading Post OCR scraper I built.
IB Shirts – I used to have a small screen printing business selling my designs and taking bulk orders. It’s currently shut down because I just don’t have time anymore.
My Github repo – My public repos where I share projects like my OCR scraper for New World.
CityMan Music – This is a music blog that me and a few friends post on. It leans mostly towards EDM, but has a few other genres mixed in.
The Scrumgineer 