Location: North Carolina, USA

Remote: Probably required - far from a large city. Wouldn't have an issue with limited travel.

Technologies: AWS, Terraform, Python, TypeScript, Terraform, React, FastAPI, Postgres, Docker

Current: Contract work for [x] company doing RLHF / benchmark testing AI models in software dev, computer science and other areas. Sometimes its writing scripts to web scrape large data sets. Sometimes its coming up with input data for real world scenarios and benchmark testing models. It moves fast and varies a lot from quarter to quarter. Sometimes its working on Python tools for agents.

Prior: Grew up wannabe hacker in the 90s on AOL and IRC. Wrote my first programs in Visual Basic 3.0 and first websites on Angelfire and Geocities. Freelance web dev in the 2000s and founded/sold a few websites(nothing major obviously but led to some jobs at other places).

Education / Certs: AWS certifications. Current contract work requires many rounds of grueling FAANG type DSA questions with graphs and algorithm analysis before getting access to high paying work. No formal CS education but I do self-study CS with things Intro to Algs book, Coursera's Intro to Algos. Those qualifications were stressful and the hardest I've experienced yet in an interview. Pretty sure I was aging three times quicker than usual while doing them. I imagine most of my analysis was wrong on many questions but I did get some code to pass tests.

Seeking: I don't know. Current gig pays well but no benefits and inconsistent work from quarter to quarter. I love helping people, making demo videos/blogs/projects, writing documentation. I have a little bit of experience in a lot of areas, and work on review teams + Slack chats helping new colleagues.