Software Engineer

Devin Thakker

I build product-focused software across the restaurant and incentives industry, civic tech, and consumer platforms. My work sits at the intersection of reliable systems, clear user experience, and practical execution.

Today I work on gifting and payments systems at Restaurant.com and CardCash.com, which are owned by Giftify, Inc. (NASDAQ: GIFT).

Work

Selected Projects

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The Common News

  • iOS
  • Civic Tech

iOS and web app that condenses local municipal meeting minutes into digestible daily summaries. Residents can quickly review agendas, decisions, and follow-up actions so they stay engaged with what is happening in their community.

Chicago Budget RAG

  • FastAPI
  • RAG
  • Civic Tech

Public-facing RAG web app over Chicago FY2026 budget ordinances with source-grounded answers, page-level citations, and an embedded PDF viewer for opening exact document pages from each result.

iLib Technical Indicators

  • Python
  • Finance

Lightweight Python toolkit for calculating live technical indicators across equities and digital assets. Designed to plug into data pipelines so traders can surface moving averages, oscillators, and other analytics without leaving their workflow.

Icarus BT

  • Python
  • Quant

Backtesting framework for quantitative strategies that helps researchers simulate trades against historical price series. Provides utilities for configuring entry and exit signals, executing parameter sweeps, and reviewing performance metrics side by side.

Neural Networks for Housing Markets

  • PyTorch
  • Python

PyTorch exploration into modeling housing prices with neural networks. Includes data preprocessing pipelines, feature engineering experiments, and training notebooks to benchmark architectures and evaluate prediction accuracy.

Credit Card Fraud Detection

  • Python
  • Machine Learning

Machine learning project focused on surfacing anomalous activity in credit card transactions. Applies data balancing techniques and multiple classification models to improve recall on rare fraudulent events while keeping false positives manageable.

COMS

  • Open Source

Open-source communication stack that experiments with self-hosted messaging for small teams. The project explores building blocks for channels, permissions, and extensibility so organizations can tailor collaboration tools to their workflows.

Writing

Latest Articles

Notes on building products, local government information, and the systems behind the work.

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Background

Education

Indiana University Bloomington · B.S. Computer Science (ML/AI Concentration)

Minor in Data Science and Finance · GPA 3.71

Multiple semester Dean's List honoree.

Contact

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I'm open to new opportunities, product conversations, and collaborations around software, payments, and civic technology.