Project Sentinel
Yanqing, Pablo, Claire, and Alastair during the Canadian Expo
Hello everyone! We designed and developed Project Sentinel, an intelligent profile analyzer that identifies safe connections. Before we explain our product, let us introduce the team:
Alastair Lewis
Apprentice of Queen's, the Terror of Skiers, Kafka wrestler, and records spinning Master.
Alastair is currently gearing up for his final year of his Software Development Degree at Queen’s University. Alastair’s main role on Project Sentinel has been System Architecture where he wrestles with Kafka topics on a daily basis and types commands so fast that Linux can’t keep up. His passions aside from software and technology include hitting up the gym to work on his gains, spinning EDM records in the club (Basement mostly), and skiing at irresponsibly dangerous speeds. Fun fact, Alastair came up with the team name Sentinel after watching a mediocre at best thriller named The Sentinel. He gives it a 2/10, wouldn’t recommend. Claire Dalkie
Daughter of U of T, the Queen of Intelligent Machines, Commander of pandas and pythons, and Sage of English Language.
Claire is entering her third year in Engineering Science at the University of Toronto, where she is specializing in Machine Intelligence. Claire's role on Project Sentinel was to build the core of our Machine Learning component, which means she spent most of the summer taming dangerous programming creatures, such as pythons and pandas. When Claire isn't coding, she is reviewing the slides and scripts for our pitch: making sure we don't waste too many words when trying to convey our message in 4 minutes. Fun fact, Claire is a Harry Potter aficionado, and has spent the summer re-reading the series' books.
Pablo Nazé
Child of Rotman, The Knower of acronyms, Powerpoint and Excel Ninja, and the fear of dead composers
Pablo is originally from Brazil and is currently pursuing his MBA at the Rotman School of Management, at the University of Toronto. Pablo's main responsibility is to build Project Sentinel's business case and to steer the project's development. When not working on Powerpoint or Excel, Pablo is driving developers crazy by reviewing some code and threatening to push his own code – you don't want to see that!Outside of work, Pablo has an interest for the arts, especially music and dance. A tap dancer for almost a decade, his most recent endeavour was to start learning to play piano during the summer. Yanqing Wu
Warrior of Waterloo, Git God, Killer of all bugs, GUI expert, and sketch master
Yanqing is in his third year of Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Yanqing's role during the summer was to manage our Github repository, review code and create our amazing graphical user interface for our demo. Without Yanqing, we wouldn't be able to convey our code and ideas into an easily accessible interface, responsible for winning the hearts of our stakeholders. When not at the office, you can spot Yanqing drawing and making beautiful pencil sketches. Throughout the summer we worked with the Data Security team in Toronto. Our project uses Machine Learning to identify which connections attempting to access a database can be trusted, thus increasing the efficiency and visibility for system administrators.
When not brainstorming and working on our Project, our favourite activity is to play a new sport, Extreme Foosball. Yes, you read it correctly, extreme. It is the same old foosball, but instead of one ball we play with two balls and four players. It can get pretty hectic and that is why it's so competitive fun (Also: Team Alastair-Yanqing wins most of the time!)
We really enjoyed our time at IBM and in New York, where we could meet the other Extreme Blue teams and present our pitch in the U.S











