Ellucian

Context

Ellucian builds software for higher education. I worked in research and development on a scheduling product that turned disparate institutional datasets into course schedules for advisors and students.

The work

• Created a production prediction model in Python forecasting student academic performance. It became the data layer behind the schedule-builder used by advisors and students across institutional customers.
• Shipped a scheduling product adopted by the State of Georgia across its higher-education system, generating student schedules from state-provided datasets under strict data-handling requirements.
• Maintained the ML data tables on AWS that supported institutional analytics, including migration and integration across sources.
• Wrote the client-facing web application, on Flask and FastAPI, that put model output in front of non-technical stakeholders as decisions they could act on.

Why it still matters

This was my first time shipping machine learning to a customer who would never look at the model, only at what it told them.