🧑‍💻 The Modern OR Engineer

📈 #90 Stop perfecting algorithms, start owning your data

How taking control of your inputs can save your optimization project

Sep 23, 2025 • Borja Menéndez

📈 #89 Trust is the true objective function

Models succeed when people believe in them, not when they’re mathematically perfect.

Sep 15, 2025 • Borja Menéndez

📈 #88 The market speaks: Product OR Engineers are real

Waymo's $250k job posting proves that optimization is moving from back-office to product-embedded roles

Sep 8, 2025 • Borja Menéndez

📈 #75 Breaking to build better: Implementing Test-Driven Development for Operations Research

Why comprehensive testing is not just important, but essential for maintaining solution quality and reliability

May 12, 2025 • Borja Menéndez

📈 #74 The engineering side of Operations Research: tactics to amplify your modeling value through better software practices

Ensuring reliability, maintainability, and business impact

May 5, 2025 • Borja Menéndez

📈 #70 Are Product OR Engineers the future of Operations Research?

Turn users into your most valuable collaborators

Apr 7, 2025 • Borja Menéndez

📈 #65 Optimization as a competitive advantage: aligning mathematical models with business KPIs

How to systematically connect OR projects to KPIs through the IMPACT framework

Mar 3, 2025 • Borja Menéndez

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