I managed to smuggle applications of those solvers into a few jobs.
Eg at Goldman Sachs I used mixed integer linear programming to reshuffle the assignments of particular departments' computing needs to specific data centres. Before I got my hands at this, people used to just do it manually and hadn't even realized this was something were you could optimize systematically and squeeze some efficiency out of.
If you have an eye for it, you can find similar opportunities in many areas of many companies. Assignment / scheduling is actually extremely common, if you can recognise it. It's also relatively easy to show an improvement that you can measure in dollars, which always goes over well with the business folks.
Eg at Goldman Sachs I used mixed integer linear programming to reshuffle the assignments of particular departments' computing needs to specific data centres. Before I got my hands at this, people used to just do it manually and hadn't even realized this was something were you could optimize systematically and squeeze some efficiency out of.
If you have an eye for it, you can find similar opportunities in many areas of many companies. Assignment / scheduling is actually extremely common, if you can recognise it. It's also relatively easy to show an improvement that you can measure in dollars, which always goes over well with the business folks.