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Hackday XIX: Ship Happens! Winning Project - Git Luigi
Every year at Caplin Systems, there’s a day (two days, technically) when the usual rhythm of tickets, releases, and sprints is paused. Instead, engineers, designers, product managers, and anyone else who wants to join, participate in one of the company’s most anticipated traditions: Hackday.
Written by
Velina Valcheva
Date
October 10, 2025
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WeatherVanes hack day
The theme for Caplin’s Winter Hackday 2022 was ‘Bringing it all together’, meaning to take any of our existing stack, products, and tools, and see what synergies we could produce.
Written by
Mike Salsbury
Date
October 13, 2023
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AI
Building a Data-Driven Sales Analysis Dashboard with Dash, Plotly, and Logistic Regression
In today’s dynamic financial landscape, data-driven decisions are pivotal for successful sales strategies. The ability to visualise and analyse data before or during a sale can significantly impact outcomes.
Written by
Tom Pitts
Date
September 11, 2023
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AI
SalesIQ: Empowering FX Sales Dealers with Predictive Insights
Caplin hackdays happen twice a year and are a perfect opportunity to try new things, many of which end up in our products. The theme for our July hackday was ‘Smart Caplin’, and our team SalesIQ wanted to investigate whether we could use machine learning to transform our FX Sales dashboard into a powerful tool that would empower sales dealers with predictive capabilities and a deeper understanding of client behaviour.
Written by
Steve South
Date
August 4, 2023
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AI
Hack Day XVII – It's my bank in a box!
Caplin runs a biannual internal hack day competition for employees to work on fun projects and spike new ideas for future products. For this hack day our team comprised Lukmann Butt, Ed Pratt and myself. The aim of our project was two-fold:
Written by
Tom Brook
Date
July 20, 2023
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