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Watt The Hack

A Kaggle-style competition platform that securely runs and scores untrusted competitor code at scale. I led the engineering.

The Watt The Hack dispatch dashboard mid-run: live grid view with solar, diesel, battery and FCAS nodes, and a running cost tracker.

Stack

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Kubernetes · GKE
  • Docker · Kaniko
  • RabbitMQ
  • PostgreSQL

Links

Live sandbox Public engine MLAI

What I built

  • Worked with MLAI to build an energy-grid simulation engine for a live hackathon that drew 160 participants over 22 teams: modelling solar curtailment, demand/price forecasting, frequency response (FCAS), and adversarial cyberattack scenarios, with hidden-variant scoring against optimal-cost baselines.
  • Architected and deployed a Kubernetes-based (GKE Autopilot) evaluation platform that automatically ran and scored every participant’s submitted control algorithm against hidden grid scenarios, powering a live leaderboard.
  • Led a team of 8 engineers across ML, backend, and infrastructure to design, build, and ship the platform end-to-end.

The Watt The Hack organising team from MLAI and Monash DeepNeuron at Stone & Chalk.

Presenting the Watt The Hack platform at Stone & Chalk, Melbourne.