— Shipped prod systems for Oracle, Shell, Time Warner, Bank of America, Sparkasse, Saatchi & Saatchi, Digitas
— Launched and audited major blockchains (e.g. Tezos - core team, Solana - 3rd party auditor)
— Built + scaled a software NGO (2M+ supporters, 1k+ volunteers)
睿 Strengths: Turn ambiguous problems into shipped systems; MVPs that don’t need rewriting; ML, LLMs, Foundation Models, RAGs, vector DBs; 10x–1000x performance wins on legacy systems; FP, Compilers, DSLs, distributed systems, security-critical code
功 Further work: Contributor: Rust Book, Rust By Example, Python docs, Haskell Communities and Activities Report; Dozens of audits, background in cryptography, infosec, formal methods
運 If you need someone who can own the stack and ship reliably, email me at damianjobsites+hn@gmail.com
命 Considering the following roles, as well as anything else that's interesting: Engineering Manager, AI Engineer, ML Engineer, Research Engineer, AI Researcher, Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Software Engineer, Senior Developer, Staff Developer, Principal Developer.
P.S. I thought I'd use graphemes instead of bullet points, since they carry meaning related to the paragraph. Kind of like a mini-heading!
宝 Multiple exits. Hands-on, or owning the whole technical org.
勝 Highlights:
— Managed organization of 60 world-class researchers and devs working on AI safety
— Designed and shipped a commercial LLM end-to-end that competed with ChatGPT (algorithms → training → MLops), now used internally at global orgs
— Expert at agentic workflows (Claude Code, harnesses, autonomous agents, LLM-powered dev)
— Shipped prod systems for Oracle, Shell, Time Warner, Bank of America, Sparkasse, Saatchi & Saatchi, Digitas
— Launched and audited major blockchains (e.g. Tezos - core team, Solana - 3rd party auditor)
— Built + scaled a software NGO (2M+ supporters, 1k+ volunteers)
睿 Strengths: Turn ambiguous problems into shipped systems; MVPs that don’t need rewriting; ML, LLMs, Foundation Models, RAGs, vector DBs; 10x–1000x performance wins on legacy systems; FP, Compilers, DSLs, distributed systems, security-critical code
功 Further work: Contributor: Rust Book, Rust By Example, Python docs, Haskell Communities and Activities Report; Dozens of audits, background in cryptography, infosec, formal methods
運 If you need someone who can own the stack and ship reliably, email me at damianjobsites+hn@gmail.com
命 Considering the following roles, as well as anything else that's interesting: Engineering Manager, AI Engineer, ML Engineer, Research Engineer, AI Researcher, Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Software Engineer, Senior Developer, Staff Developer, Principal Developer.
P.S. I thought I'd use graphemes instead of bullet points, since they carry meaning related to the paragraph. Kind of like a mini-heading!