asimonson1125.github.io/src/templates/home.html

{% block content %}
<section class="hero" aria-labelledby="homeName">
  <div class="hero-inner">
    <h1 id="homeName" class="display">Andrew Simonson</h1>
    <p class="lede">
      Data scientist at Ecolab and a graduate student at RIT.
      I build end-to-end decision machines: from data pipelines that process scale, to epistemic models which understand, to user interfaces that convey.
    </p>
    <p class="hero-links">
      <a href="/projects" onclick="goto('projects'); return false;">Work</a>
      <a href="/about" onclick="goto('about'); return false;">About</a>
      <a href="/resume">Résumé</a>
      <a href="https://github.com/asimonson1125" rel="noopener noreferrer">GitHub</a>
      <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonsonandrew/" rel="noopener noreferrer">LinkedIn</a>
    </p>
  </div>
</section>

<div class="page">

  <section class="section" aria-labelledby="now-heading">
    <div class="section-head">
      <h2 id="now-heading">Now</h2>
      <p class="section-note">Today</p>
    </div>
    <dl class="now-list">
      <div class="now-item">
        <dt>At work</dt>
        <dd>
          Primary model developer on RushReady at Ecolab: explainable anomaly
          detection, plus brand-configurable recommendations
          for quick-service restaurants, all running on a near-real-time Delta
          Live Tables platform.
        </dd>
      </div>
      <div class="now-item">
        <dt>At school</dt>
        <dd>
          M.S. in Data Science at Rochester Institute of Technology, focused on
          probability theory, statistical learning, and Bayesian methods.
          Capstone in fall 2026.
        </dd>
      </div>
      <div class="now-item">
        <dt>At home</dt>
        <dd>
          Running a <a href="/projects#feature-homelab" onclick="goto('projects', {hash: 'feature-homelab'}); return false;">two-GPU homelab</a>
          that serves Mixture-of-Experts models to coding agents over local
          endpoints, and using the same rig to fine-tune small models.
        </dd>
      </div>
      <div class="now-item">
        <dt>On the shelf</dt>
        <dd>
          <ul class="shelf-row" aria-label="A few favorite books">
            {% for title in var.books.selection[:5] %}
            {% set book = var.books.books[title] %}
            <li>
              <a href="/books#'{{ title }}'" onclick="goto('books', {hash: &quot;'{{ title }}'&quot;}); return false;" title="{{ title }}">
                <img
                  src="{{ url_for('static', filename='photos/books/' + book.filename) }}"
                  alt="{{ title }}"
                  loading="lazy"
                  width="60"
                  height="90"
                />
              </a>
            </li>
            {% endfor %}
          </ul>
          <a class="shelf-more" href="/books" onclick="goto('books'); return false;">All reviews</a>
        </dd>
      </div>
    </dl>
  </section>

  <section class="section" aria-labelledby="selected-heading">
    <div class="section-head">
      <h2 id="selected-heading">Selected work</h2>
      <p class="section-note"><a href="/projects" onclick="goto('projects'); return false;">Everything</a></p>
    </div>
    <ol class="selected-list">
      {% for id, f in var.features.items() %}
      <li>
        <a href="/projects#feature-{{ id }}" onclick="goto('projects', {hash: 'feature-{{ id }}'}); return false;">{{ f.title }}</a>
        <span>{{ f.summary or f.tagline }}</span>
      </li>
      {% endfor %}
    </ol>
  </section>

  <section class="section" aria-labelledby="site-heading">
    <div class="section-head">
      <h2 id="site-heading">What now?</h2>
    </div>
    <div class="colophon">
      <div class="colophon-text">
        <p>
          I wasn't really expecting anyone to read this far.
          If you're looking for shared resources you've taken a wrong turn.
        </p>  
        <p>
          From here, we'll rekindle the future.
        </p>
        <p class="blinkies" aria-label="Retro web badges">
          <img alt="Pepsi Addict" src="{{ url_for('static', filename='photos/blinkies/pepsiaddict.gif') }}" loading="lazy" width="150" height="20" />
          <img alt="If you can read this you are too close to the monitor" src="{{ url_for('static', filename='photos/blinkies/tooclose.gif') }}" loading="lazy" width="150" height="20" />
          <img alt="They took my blood but it wasn't DNA, it was USA" src="{{ url_for('static', filename='photos/blinkies/usa.gif') }}" loading="lazy" width="150" height="20" />
          <img alt="Bob the Builder: can we build it?" src="{{ url_for('static', filename='photos/blinkies/bobthebuilder.gif') }}" loading="lazy" width="150" height="20" />
        </p>
      </div>
      <figure class="colophon-figure flex">
        <img
          src="{{ url_for('static', filename='photos/extradimensional.avif') }}"
          alt="Seraphim over a globe"
          width="180"
          fetchpriority="high"
        />
        <figcaption></figcaption>
      </figure>
    </div>
  </section>

</div>
{% endblock %}