@Joy_intl @Vicky I'm jealous. Stuck in Texas.

@EVDHmn Python & SQL primarily, but I'm quick to pick up new languages as needed. Most of my *workplace* experience is in ETL and ML. I also have 30 years of algorithm design projects in my personal time, mostly ML-related.

I was on the team that developed Bank of America's automated financial assistant, Erica, just before LLMs hit, and have a patent from my time there for an anaphora resolution (natural language processing) algorithm. It serves ~10 million customers.

I'm cofounder of a startup developing novel explainable/interpretable machine learning algorithms, but we are too early to get paid for it. We've worked extensively with hyperdimensional computing (HDC), knowledge graphs, rule-based learning, and other interpretable methods.

I haven't managed other coders, but I have been in roles involving leadership. My forte is in problem solving, technical leadership, and engineering, not management.

I'm autistic and, based on the feedback, apparently I don't interview well -- it's not clear to them that I have the necessary skills.

But I know my stuff. I've been doing this for 30 years.

I am so unbelievably frustrated and discouraged right now, and my anxiety is through the roof. I can't do this again. I was unemployed for almost the entire year of 2024, due to layoffs, and it was profoundly stressful and terrifying. And here I am again. FML

I need employment, *urgently*. I am not picky. My family needs to eat, and that overrides everything else. Please, does anybody out there work at a company that has machine learning or Python programming positions? Would you be willing to recommend me? I can demonstrate my abilities to you, first, if you need convincing, or I can share git repos.

I didn't get the job. We are completely fucked.