A global financial institution recently tasked ThoughtWorks with a challenging problem: detecting credit card application fraud. To keep up with criminals’ tricks, the detection algorithms (models) need to be updated continuously. The longer these models go without updating, the less effective they become, losing money to undetected fraudsters.
The client’s current practice of relying on a third-party vendor to manage these models was expensive and time consuming. ThoughtWorks’s task was to devise a process to improve the company’s fraud detection with a sophisticated machine learning workflow that empowers data scientists to rapidly and iteratively design, develop, and productionalize new models.
Join Sarah LeBlanc and Hany Elemary where data science meets DevOps to productionalize machine learning fraud detection models. You’ll learn how data science algorithms can drive effective models and how ThoughtWorks is applying continuous delivery principles at a global corporation to create an extensible platform for more than just application fraud.
Sarah LeBlanc is a software consultant at ThoughtWorks, where she works on projects focusing on using machine learning for fraud and anomaly detection; she recently helped a global financial institution create a platform and its first product, a new system for consumer loans. Sarah finds the most joy in coaching and mentoring other developers and learning from her fantastic team members but is not averse to debating coworkers (and gracefully accepting defeat in the face of sufficient evidence). Sarah continues to recognize the merits of coffee lids.
Hany Elemary is a software consultant at ThoughtWorks, where he solves challenging business problems through clean, testable design and architecture. Over the past 11 years, Hany has worked on a number of different layers of the technology stack for highly trafficked applications. Most recently, he authored a video series, TDD with React and Redux in an Isomorphic Application. When he’s not chained to his computer, Hany enjoys traveling to new places and sipping on coffee with no lid, as he firmly believes the lid compromises the integrity of the coffee’s flavor profile.
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