rllama VS Resume

Location: San Francisco

Remote: No preference, as long as I don't have to move far from Bay Area

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C, Rust, Golang, Haskell, Lisp, Python, Lua, OpenGL, SQLite3, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, AWS EC2, S3, ECS, Batch.

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikjuola

Email: [email protected]

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I've been working at the Bay Area since 2015, most recently at Pinterest. At work, I've done big data pipelines, designed some batch job systems, computing metrics, handling billing APIs, lots of Python, Go and Java and working with AWS, i.e. backend and data engineer stuff.

But I'm trying to look for work that's more in line with what I do on my free time: Challenging low-level C or Rust programming, machine learning implementations (see e.g. this thing I made https://github.com/Noeda/rllama/, graphics programming or research-type work, uncommon programming languages.

If you scroll through my random crap repositories you can see what kind of things I'm interested in: https://github.com/Noeda?tab=repositories

No, my project is called rllama. No relation to GGML. https://github.com/Noeda/rllama

I have seen some Rust attempts as well such as https://github.com/Noeda/rllama/ but they are still way behind the C++ ones. This seems like an interesting space to get into.

I ran it on a 128 RAM machine with a Ryzen 5950X. It's not fast, 4 seconds per token. But it's just about fits without swapping. https://github.com/Noeda/rllama/

I've counted three different Rust LLaMA implementations on r/rust subreddit this week:

https://github.com/Noeda/rllama/ (pure Rust+OpenCL)

https://github.com/setzer22/llama-rs/ (ggml based)

https://github.com/philpax/ggllama (also ggml based)

There's also a discussion on GitHub issue on setzer's repo to collaborate a bit on these separate efforts: https://github.com/setzer22/llama-rs/issues/4

I found this extremely bizarre, as I don't really think my resume could in any way be interpreted as a PM's resume, and assuming I wasn't lying I feel that it's pretty obvious I am a "hands on coder".

I think what happened is that the hiring manager already knew who they wanted for the job, but for legal and/or bureaucratic reasons they had to have a pretense of "trying to find the best candidate". I suspect that they never even looked at my resume, had some basic boilerplate rejection text that had some vague plausibility, and was just going to reject every candidate sent to them.

That's fine, but I really wish they had done this before I had to spend multiple hours trying to get a read on my personality. I think a lot of hiring managers are sociopaths.

[1] https://gitlab.com/tombert/Resume/-/blob/master/resume.pdf?r...

Résumé/CV: https://gitlab.com/tombert/Resume/-/blob/master/resume.pdf