Cory Derringer

Reviewed a newer teammate’s PR and caught a subtle correctness risk: inconsistent date casting during cutoff filtering (string-stored dates can compare “successfully” while silently producing the wrong result). Recommended standardizing casts so invalid formats fail loudly, and suggested extracting duplicated filtering logic into a shared trait. When the follow-up was close but not correct, I implemented a clean reference version with explanatory comments to unblock and leave behind a reusable pattern.

A paper I published in Cognitive Psychology with my advisor, Ben Rottman. We conducted several experiments and modified a reinforcement learning model to explain our findings. (link)

Side project attempting to address a hard political question ("Are AR15 rifles particularly deadly?") using data analysis/visualizations. (link)