SpotChase (Hackathon Project)

My team came first place in Google Ireland’s first ever BGN (Black Googler Network) Hackathon. Our project was an AI powered trip planner, that takes in user preferences and creates personalised itineraries for them. I worked on the backend for this project, which uses fastAPI along with Google cloud, as well as integrating some parts of the frontend to the backend.

AI? Link to heading

Much of the personalisation is done using LLMs. The backend store the user preferences, and calls various LLM apis to create the itineraries. Fine tuning of the LLM on the cloud platform itself allows for data to be integrated from many sources, and clever prompting on the backend side allows the LLM to generate data in a consistent JSON format.

FastAPI? Link to heading

I’m normally not a big fan of Python for projects, but in a quick weekend-long hackathon setting, it works really well. FastAPI has almost 0 boilerplate and allows you to jump straight into writing code, and its popularity makes setting it up to run on the cloud very easy.