The problem
After a school event, staff spent hours sorting hundreds of photos by hand, and children's privacy matters.
What I built
A Python face-recognition service that finds and matches faces across an event's photos and videos, tuned for small faces in group shots.
Memory across events: staff confirm a student's name once, and Podium suggests it at every event after.
Private delivery: families open the links they're sent with no account, recognition runs on Podium's own servers with no third-party vision service, and originals are deleted on the school's schedule.
Releases tagged by commit, with one-step rollback.
Stack: TypeScript, Python, PostgreSQL, Docker
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Schools upload a whole event and Podium sorts photos and videos by student, with face recognition on its own servers and private links for families.
