Machine-Learning

Two friends preparing their Fantacalcio auction together during a summer holiday

I Built a Model for Fantacalcio. The Useful Part Is When It Says No.

I started with Milan in Championship Manager 03/04, went through an almost perfect auction and a season shaped by injuries, then built Fantabuddy on holiday: a system that turns player lists, history and APIs into an auditable auction report.

Guardrails for Tabular ML: A Data Engineer's Take on Data Leakage, Poisoning, and Brittle Pipelines

Most ML pipeline failures are not exotic model bugs — they are data issues that nobody encoded as checks. This article walks through building guardrails using pandas, Apache DataFusion, data contracts, and the Arrow C Data Interface.