diff --git a/applicants/Antarr-Byrd.md b/applicants/Antarr-Byrd.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..090605d --- /dev/null +++ b/applicants/Antarr-Byrd.md @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +# Antarr Byrd — Skills Profile + +--- + +## Name / Handle +[Antarr Byrd](https://antarr.dev), [https://github.com](@antarr) + +--- + +## Core Identity +- Full-stack web and enterprise applications developer passionate about backend development and devops, especially automation and APIs. +- A polyglot, with expertise in Ruby on Rails, Crystal, .NET. +- A huge fan of opensource applications + +--- + +## What You're Good At +Your strongest skills — technical or not. Be specific. + +- Full stack web development in Ruby on Rails. +- Software infrastructure, whether its self hosted or in the cloud +- Making mistakes and learning from them + +--- + +## How You Use AI Right Now +Not what you've heard about, what you actually use. Tools, models, workflows, things you've built or shipped. + +- Claude Code Cli +- Gemini +- Automate code review using Ollama Cloud models + +--- + +## Current or Recent Projects +What are you working on or what have you shipped? Links welcome. + +- [WevoteProject](https://wevoteproject.com) +- [MySQLGenius](https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/1sgsl22/mysqlgenius_020_release/) +- [Withing.net](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Withings.NET/4.0.1) +- [vs-sidekiq](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=antarrb.sidekiq-manager) +- [Crystal Text Splitter](wevote-project/crystal-text-splitter) +- [Ruby Roost](https://rubyroost.dev) + +--- + +## What You Want to Build Here +To build tools for automation, making work easier. + +--- + +## Superpower +Translating other peoples visions into real products. Sometimes my own. diff --git a/applicants/Atalia-Young.md b/applicants/Atalia-Young.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2072c92 --- /dev/null +++ b/applicants/Atalia-Young.md @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +# Atalia S. Young — Skills Profile + +--- + +## Name / Handle +Atalia S. Young +GitHub: AUsymplus0326 + +--- + +## Core Identity +Enterprise product and delivery leader specializing in HR systems, now building and implementing AI-powered solutions for real-world environments. + +I design structured systems that move from idea → deployment → adoption. + +--- + +## What You're Good At + +- Leading end-to-end delivery of enterprise systems (80K+ users, federal HRIT platforms) +- Translating ambiguous problems into structured, buildable solutions +- AI solution design for real-world use (operations, HR, behavior systems) +- Driving execution across engineering, vendors, and stakeholders +- Turning concepts into production-ready workflows and products + +--- + +## How You Use AI Right Now + +- Designing and building **AuSYM+ AI**, a platform focused on routines, executive functioning, and caregiver ecosystems +- Creating AI-assisted product architectures (onboarding logic, role-based access, insight generation) +- Using AI to accelerate: + - Product design + UX flows + - System architecture decisions + - Content + tool generation at scale +- Building structured tools powered by AI (routine systems, behavioral supports, decision frameworks) +- Using AI as a **delivery accelerator**, not just exploration + +--- + +## Current or Recent Projects + +- **AuSYM+ AI (Founder / Product Lead)** + AI-powered platform supporting neurodiverse children and their support systems + → Focus: routines, executive functioning, caregiver collaboration + +- **ASYM+ (Fractional Practice)** + Enterprise HR systems product leadership + → Modernization, platform ownership, delivery execution + +- **Executive Functioning System (Book + Toolkit)** + Parent + child framework designed for real-life usability (KDP + digital tools) + +- **Village Exchange Network (MVP)** + Community-based platform for resource sharing and support coordination + +--- + +## What You Want to Build Here + +I’m interested in contributing as a **delivery lead / product lead** on real AI engagements. + +Specifically: +- Leading implementation from problem definition → deployed solution +- Structuring AI systems that integrate into existing workflows (not sit on the side) +- Building repeatable frameworks for AI adoption across organizations + +I’m focused on **execution, usability, and outcomes** — not just prototypes. + +--- + +## Superpower + +I take complex, messy environments and turn them into structured systems that can actually be implemented, scaled, and used. + +--- + diff --git a/applicants/Christopher-Thom.md b/applicants/Christopher-Thom.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6992aee --- /dev/null +++ b/applicants/Christopher-Thom.md @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +# [Christopher Thompson] — Skills Profile + +--- + +## Name / Handle +Your name, GitHub handle, or both. + +Christopher Thompson / [chris](https://github.com/chris745820) + +--- + +## Core Identity + +Senior Software Engineer focused on AI-driven integrations and warehouse-native B2B SaaS. +I connect data warehouses, CRMs, and third-party APIs into reliable products and ship multi-agent AI features end to end + +--- + +## What You're Good At + +- Designing and owning reverse ETL and sync engines that move data between Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift and CRMs like Salesforce and HubSpot with strong SLAs. +- Building multi-agent AI services, RAG layers, and AI copilots that sit on top of warehouse and product data to power sales and marketing workflows. +- Implementing robust backend services in Python, Java, and Node.js with clear data models, idempotent jobs, and resilient retry strategies. +- Shipping full-stack features with React/Next.js, React Native, and TypeScript, including AI-assisted configuration and client-facing portals. +- Hardening systems for production with AWS/GCP, infrastructure as code, SOC 2–aligned security, and strong observability. + +--- + +## How You Use AI Right Now + +- Build and ship multi-agent services that orchestrate GPT, Claude, Mistral, and Gemini to automate audience building, trait generation, and sync configuration. +- Design RAG layers over Snowflake and PostgreSQL that join product usage, marketing, and CRM data for low-latency AI copilots in web apps and CRM side panels. +- Use LangChain, LangGraph, embeddings, and vector DBs (Pinecone, FAISS) to power semantic field matching, configuration suggestions, and integration health surfacing. +- Add AI-assisted workflows into existing products, like sync setup copilots and mapping assistants, to reduce onboarding time and configuration friction. +- Apply AI-powered anomaly detection on observability data to catch pipeline issues before they impact customers. + +--- + +## Current or Recent Projects + +- What are you working on or what have you shipped? Links welcome. +- Multi-agent AI services at Hightouch that automate activation workflows and suggestions over warehouse and CRM data. +- A scalable RAG and insights layer that powers AI copilots inside the Hightouch UI and CRM extensions for Salesforce and HubSpot. +- Unified connector and reverse ETL APIs at Supaglue for CRM, marketing, and warehouse platforms with AI-assisted mapping and configuration. +- A full-stack AI-powered video generation platform at FuseBase for real estate agents, serving thousands of users with sub-second responses. +- Infrastructure-as-code stacks (AWS CDK/Terraform) for connector and activation services with secure networking, observability, and safe deploys. + +--- + +## What You Want to Build Here + +#### I want to own end-to-end full stack engineering and data models, AI orchestrations, also integrations with other services or UI, etc on robust architecture +--- + +## Superpower + +Turning complex data and AI infrastructure into clear, reliable product surfaces that GTM and customer teams can trust and use immediately. diff --git a/applicants/Clivia-Neptune.md b/applicants/Clivia-Neptune.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3b4611a --- /dev/null +++ b/applicants/Clivia-Neptune.md @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +# Clivia Neptune — Skills Profile + +## Name / Handle + +Clivia Neptune / LivNep + +## Core Identity + +Implementation & Operations Manager with 8+ years leading enterprise B2B +onboarding across fintech, healthcare, and SaaS. I take complex client +implementations from contract to go-live — managing integrations, timelines, +risk, and cross-functional teams — and build the systems that make it +repeatable at scale. + +## What You're Good At + +- Managing end-to-end client implementations including requirements gathering, + API/payroll integrations, UAT, and post-launch stabilization +- Running concurrent enterprise onboardings (up to 10,000 lives) while + maintaining data integrity and regulatory compliance +- Designing and standardizing implementation documentation, frameworks, and + workflows that scale +- Cross-functional stakeholder management across Engineering, Product, Finance, + Sales, and Customer Success +- Building executive-level reporting, RAID logs, risk mitigation plans, and + delivery tracking dashboards + +## How You Use AI Right Now + +- Using Claude to draft and refine client-facing documentation, project plans, + and implementation frameworks faster +- Automating repetitive reporting and status update workflows +- Learning to build AI-assisted onboarding tools that reduce manual + configuration and client friction +- Using AI to research and apply best practices in implementation ops and + process design + +## Current or Recent Projects + +- Leading AP/AR digital payment platform implementations at Viewpost — + managing full SDLC from discovery through production deployment +- Previously managed HSA/FSA/COBRA/HRA employer group implementations at + Voya Financial serving up to 10,000 lives per group + +## What You Want to Build Here + +AI-powered implementation and operations tools — smarter onboarding workflows, +automated documentation, and client delivery systems that reduce time-to-value +and scale without adding headcount. + +## Superpower + +Turning messy, high-stakes enterprise onboarding into clean, repeatable +processes that clients trust and teams can actually execute. diff --git a/applicants/Herman-Haggerty.md b/applicants/Herman-Haggerty.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..77d7a20 --- /dev/null +++ b/applicants/Herman-Haggerty.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +# Herman Haggerty — Skills Profile + +## Name / Handle +Herman Haggerty · [@dubh3124](https://github.com/dubh3124) · [CognicellAI](https://github.com/CognicellAI) + +--- + +## Core Identity +Principal-level AI Infrastructure Engineer. I build the platforms and guardrails that let teams safely run LLM-powered workflows in production. Currently leading AI infra at scale; founder of CognicellAI. + +--- + +## What You're Good At +- AI infrastructure and MLOps — platform design, model deployment, MCP integrations +- Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, observability, compliance automation (SOC 2, ISO 27001) +- FinOps and cost optimization +- Building from zero — teams, standards, platforms, open-source projects + +--- + +## How You Use AI Right Now +- Architecting Kubernetes-based internal AI platforms with custom tooling and MCP-style integrations +- Building CognicellAI open-source org — [Cognition](https://github.com/CognicellAI/Cognition) (production AI agent backend with sandboxed execution, durable sessions, full observability), [Cognition-Gateway](https://github.com/CognicellAI/Cognition-Gateway) (detached frontend/control plane for agent workflows) +- Claude, OpenAI APIs, and LLM tooling in daily production workflows + +--- + +## Current or Recent Projects +- **[Cognition](https://github.com/CognicellAI/Cognition)** — Open-source, batteries-included backend for production AI agent platforms. 7-layer architecture: sandboxed execution, durable session state, multi-tenant scoping, OTel/MLflow/Prometheus observability, REST API + SSE streaming. +- **[Cognition-Gateway](https://github.com/CognicellAI/Cognition-Gateway)** — Detached frontend and control plane for Cognition agent workflows. + +--- + +## What You Want to Build Here +Ship AI-native infrastructure and agent tooling that real teams deploy. I want to build production-grade AI systems — not demos. + +--- + +## Superpower +Taking AI from prototype to production-grade infrastructure and making it stick. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/applicants/Israel-Igietsemhe.md b/applicants/Israel-Igietsemhe.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5bd6fbc --- /dev/null +++ b/applicants/Israel-Igietsemhe.md @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +# Israel Igietsemhe — Skills Profile + +--- + +## Name / Handle + +**Israel Igietsemhe** — GitHub: [Aloagbaye](https://github.com/Aloagbaye) — Portfolio: [aloagbaye.github.io](https://aloagbaye.github.io) + +--- + +## Core Identity + +Senior Data Scientist and AI/ML engineer with 10+ years building production systems for enterprise clients. Founder of Soel Technologies Inc. — an AI/ML consulting company. PhD candidate at the University of Toronto researching game options pricing via Mellin transforms. I operate at the intersection of applied ML engineering, supply chain analytics, rigorous mathematical finance, and AI education. + +--- + +## What You're Good At + +- **Production ML systems** — demand forecasting, ensemble diagnostics, hierarchical pooling, NPI modelling; shipped for Nestlé Canada, Unilever Canada, Loblaw, KetteQ, UNICEF-sponsored Afrilearn +- **Mathematical finance** — game/Israeli options theory, Mellin transform frameworks, free-boundary PDE analysis, stochastic optimal stopping; extended Panini's framework to perpetual game options as original doctoral research +- **AI engineering** — RAG pipelines, multi-agent systems, LLM-powered applications (Streamlit, FastAPI, FAISS, BGE embeddings) +- **Curriculum and programme design** — former university lecturer (UNIBEN, Production Engineering); designed structured 90-day cohort programmes for analyst-to-AI career transitions +- **Systems thinking** — translating ambiguous, high-complexity problems into modular, executable architectures — research pipelines, business programmes, productivity systems + +--- + +## How You Use AI Right Now + +- **Claude daily** — code architecture, dissertation research (literature synthesis, proof scaffolding, LaTeX drafting), business writing, content generation +- **AI-powered apps** — LinkedIn lead generation agent (Streamlit + SQLite + HubSpot CRM push), healthcare RAG system (PubMedQA/MedQA, FAISS, BGE), ecommerce recommender system +- **Prompt engineering at depth** — structured system prompts, chain-of-thought scaffolding, XML-tagged outputs, API-level orchestration +- **Notion + AI** — comprehensive productivity infrastructure: 12-Week Year system, Financial Command Center, dissertation tracking — all AI-assisted design and maintenance + +--- + +## Current or Recent Projects + +- **Agentic Clinical Assistant** ([GitHub](https://github.com/Aloagbaye/agentic-clinical-assistant)) — production-ready, regulated-domain-safe agentic RAG system; multi-agent orchestration for clinical operations guidance with strict safety, grounding, and auditability requirements; built for healthcare AI compliance constraints +- **Afrilearn — UNICEF-Sponsored Recommender System** ([GitHub](https://github.com/UNICEF-AFRILEARN)) — part of a $100K UNICEF-funded project to make education accessible to indigent students across Africa; deployed an association rule mining recommender on an e-learning platform; integrated OpenAI ChatGPT for multiple-choice question generation in quiz games +- **KetteQ Supply Chain Forecasting** — lead data scientist on production ML forecasting models for KetteQ's demand and operations planning SaaS platform; ongoing work includes ensemble model diagnostics and applying foundation models in forecasting, Docker optimization, forecasting RMAPE/WAPE analysis, and hierarchical pooling +- **PhD Dissertation — University of Toronto** — five-paper research arc extending Mellin transform frameworks to game/Israeli options pricing + +--- + +## What You Want to Build Here + +I want to build systems that make meaningful impact in production — across healthcare, education, and supply chain analytics. That's the through-line in everything I've shipped, and it's what I want to keep doing here. + +--- + +## Superpower + +Systems thinker with a rare blend of mathematical depth and production AI engineering, able to move seamlessly from theory to deployment with rigor and clarity. diff --git a/applicants/Janay-Carpenter.MD b/applicants/Janay-Carpenter.MD new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e116e33 --- /dev/null +++ b/applicants/Janay-Carpenter.MD @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +Name / Handle +Janay Carpenter — @drjcarpenter +Core Identity +Portfolio manager and organizational strategist who builds AI-powered workforce intelligence systems. Also a professor, entrepreneur, and Claude Partner who turns complex institutional problems into structured, scalable tools. +What You're Good At + +Workforce planning, FTE modeling, and resource allocation strategy +Building AI-powered internal tools that non-technical teams actually use +Translating ambiguous organizational problems into clear systems and frameworks +Curriculum design and AI literacy program development +Leading cross-functional projects from concept to implementation + +How You Use AI Right Now + +Built Hall Pass, a Claude-powered AI assistant for workforce intelligence at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago +Developed Allocation Health Reporting workflows and Power BI dashboards using AI-assisted analysis +Use Claude daily for portfolio management, content strategy, and building operational tools +Actively building AI literacy frameworks for higher education contexts + +Current or Recent Projects + +Hall Pass AI Assistant — internal Claude-powered tool for staff allocation and FTE planning +Skills Matrix Tool — workforce capability mapping tool built for FY27 planning cycle +Amali — AI-assisted activewear brand development (product, copy, brand identity) +Slow. Still. Surrender. — wellness workbook written and launched with AI-supported workflow + +What You Want to Build Here +I want to contribute to AI literacy programs that actually reach people — especially in institutional, education, and workforce contexts where AI adoption is slow not because people aren't capable, but because no one has built the on-ramp yet. I also want to be in rooms where AI-native products are being built from the ground up. +Superpower +Turning organizational complexity into tools people actually use — then teaching others how to do the same. diff --git a/applicants/Jason-Oneal.md b/applicants/Jason-Oneal.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c9e8247 --- /dev/null +++ b/applicants/Jason-Oneal.md @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +# Jason O'Neal — Skills Profile + +## Name / Handle +Jason O'Neal · [@jason-allen-oneal](https://github.com/jason-allen-oneal) + +--- + +## Core Identity +Founder/operator at BlueDot IT. I build practical systems, ship fast, and use AI as part of the workflow instead of treating it like a side experiment. + +--- + +## What You're Good At +- Full-stack problem solving and rapid implementation +- AI-assisted workflows, automation, and integration work +- Writing clear copy and turning rough ideas into usable output +- Building practical tooling for real business use +- Debugging messy systems and getting them back on track + +--- + +## How You Use AI Right Now +- I use Claude and other models to help with coding, planning, debugging, drafting, and research. +- I lean on agents when I want to move from idea to working implementation quickly. +- I use AI to speed up content, ops, and integration work, but I still expect the output to be useful and grounded. + +--- + +## Current or Recent Projects +- **BlueDot IT** — AI, cybersecurity, and web work with a focus on remote leads and practical delivery. +- **Beauty of Costa Rica hospitality automation** — hospitality ops automation work for a real business use case. +- **DemonClaw** — active development work in my main repo. +- **Hermes workflows** — browser, gateway, and automation setup across sessions. +- **Facebook campaign work** — drafting and operationalizing posts for business and community outreach. + +--- + +## What You Want to Build Here +I want to work with people who actually ship. I’m looking to contribute to practical AI systems, stronger workflows, and useful GTM execution that doesn’t stop at ideas. + +--- + +## Superpower +I can take a vague idea, turn it into a plan, and then actually build the thing. diff --git a/applicants/Joe-Hall.md b/applicants/Joe-Hall.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fd73fb0 --- /dev/null +++ b/applicants/Joe-Hall.md @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +# Joe Hall — Skills Profile + +## Name / Handle +Joe Hall · [@joehall](https://github.com/joehall) + +--- + +## Core Identity +Seasoned technical digital marketer and web developer with a focus on technical SEO for search engines and LLMs. Writing code since 1997, marketing brands since 2007. + +--- + +## What You're Good At +- Marketing DevOps +- Advising system level optimizations for SEO and performance. +- Articulating the technical aspects of retrival systems to leadership. + +--- + +## How You Use AI Right Now +- Content development and strategy for brands. +- Dashboard development and integration for realtime reporting. +- Marketing assets and content for enriching distribution. + +--- + +## Current or Recent Projects +- **[ashla.ai](https://ashla.ai/)** — AI SEO consulting and weekly newsletter. +- **[app.ashla.ai](https://app.ashla.ai/)** — AI Chatbot for Google Analytics 4 and Google Search Console. + +--- + +## What You Want to Build Here +Better analysis tools and infrastructure for brands struggling to better understant attribution, retrival systems, and LLMs at scale. + +--- + +## Superpower +I have depth and domain level knowledge in both business and code. I can build something and then successfully explain and pitch it to those that matter. diff --git a/applicants/Miriam-DeAna.md b/applicants/Miriam-DeAna.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..27aa0f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/applicants/Miriam-DeAna.md @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +# Miriam DeAna — Skills Profile + +Copy this, fill it out, save it as `applicants/YOUR-NAME.md`, and submit a PR. + +No technical background required. But you do need to be AI first. + +--- + +## Name / Handle +@miriamdeana + +--- + +## Core Identity +Engineering Leader, specializing in product and systems design, with over 10 years +experience partnering closely with Product, Design, and GTM to translate user needs +into production-ready technical solutions. Former Series A to D employee, currently +using AI to design and implement end-to-end solutions as an owner. + +--- + +## What You're Good At +Your strongest skills — technical or not. Be specific. + +- Ability to operate with ambiguity and define problems before solving them +- Strong experience designing data schemas and data models for real product use cases +- Supporting and managing senior-level engineers to ship production systems at scale +- Orchestrating and making decisions: + - build vs buy + - tools cost management and hiring + - headcount and roadmap projections + +--- + +## How You Use AI Right Now +Not what you've heard about, what you actually use. Tools, models, workflows, things you've built or shipped. + +- Genmini and ChatGPT for surface level questions and planning +- Claude OPUS 4.6 for architectural design and coding +- Lovable for landing pages and websites +- Github (Copilot, Actions, etc.) for ai-enabled development and agentic engineering approaches + +--- + +## Current or Recent Projects +What are you working on or what have you shipped? Links welcome. + +- Recent Project: using generative AI to create courses, logos, and email campaigns on ziion.io + - [AIABC Certification Program] (https://ziion.io/series/unlock-nation/from-prompt-to-product-the-aiabc-certification-program) + - [7-day AI Challenge] (https://ziion.io/series/unlock-nation/7-day-ai-challenge-build-your-first-ai-powered-app) +- Current Project: using predictive, classification AI to streamline and automate tax preparers' intake system + - Google AppScript to generate file system based on naming conventiona and taxpayers name + - Azure prebuilt-tax.us.w2 model to identify documents and extract data from documents + - AppScript again to write data from documents to spreadsheet and move uploading documents to taxpayer folders once processing is complete +- Past Proprietary Project [Pathstream](Pathstream.com): creating a predictive, regression model for skills mapping and pathway suggestions + - Company moved from B2C to B2B and refocused offerings to focus on creating industry and company-specific career pathways that + can be paid for with employee education benefits. + - As VP of Engineering during this transition, I led the engineering and data teams in creating the MVP: build skills mapping LLM + using previous student's info, public data, and current career pathways in the banking industry. + +--- + +## What You Want to Build Here +Why are you applying and what do you want to contribute or create? + +I want to contribute my expertise and build with a team. I am doing more solo work these days and miss the ability to organize, +strategize and manage larger projects. + +--- + +## Superpower +One line. What do you do better than almost anyone? + +Ask the important questions; Say the necessary things. diff --git a/applicants/ShanaSkills.md b/applicants/ShanaSkills.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b897896 --- /dev/null +++ b/applicants/ShanaSkills.md @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +# Shana — Skills Profile + +--- + +## Name / Handle + +Shana | @ShanaNichelle + +--- + +## Core Identity + +Senior Product Designer who builds AI-native products and leads design communities. Currently at BrickLink (The LEGO Group), previously led privacy and trust design at Uber serving 200M+ users. Building a venture studio focused on agent-native product development. + +--- + +## What You're Good At + +- Product design for complex, high-stakes systems (privacy, safety, trust) +- Translating ambiguous AI capabilities into usable product experiences +- Design systems and design ops at scale +- Agent architecture and workflow design (MCP, tool use, multi-agent orchestration) +- Community building and design mentorship (IxDF chapter lead, ADPList mentor) +- Stakeholder communication across technical and non-technical audiences + +--- + +## How You Use AI Right Now + +Claude is my primary tool across almost everything. Specifically: + +- **Claude Code + Figma MCP**: Wrote an internal proposal at BrickLink to pilot this for automating a manual design system audit. Building the case for AI-assisted design ops. +- **Agent building**: Developing agents using Google ADK and A2A protocol. Built an OpenClaw/Telegram integration with OAuth token management. +- **Product development**: Collaborating on Tempo, a cycle-aware fitness app, and building TFTM, a text-based AI social concierge for Gen Z. Claude is the core build tool for both. +- **Venture studio operations**: Built an entire operating thesis, partnership strategies, outreach sequences, and pitch decks with Claude as a co-builder, not just a writing tool. +- **Content and strategy**: Practitioner outreach frameworks, three-tier partnership models, 30-day content calendars, resume optimization for mentees. + +--- + +## Current or Recent Projects + +- **Venture Studio**: Building an agent-native venture studio with a rails-first model, revenue share structure, and a completed operating thesis. +- **Tempo**: Cycle-aware fitness app. Led full practitioner partnership outreach strategy targeting women's health specialists, built deck and strategy docs. +- **TFTM**: AI social concierge concept for Gen Z, built on Google ADK/A2A. +- **BrickLink Studio**: Supporting the desktop app as Senior Digital Product Designer, proposed Claude Code pilot for design system audit. +- **IxDF Irvine**: Chapter lead. Recently hosted the Spring Social with a full suite of event materials designed and produced end to end. +- **Claude Community Ambassador**: Applied, highlighting IxDF leadership, ADPList mentorship, and agent-building work. + +--- + +## What You Want to Build Here + +I want to help shape how this team delivers AI-powered product experiences to enterprise clients. I bring the design and product lens that makes the difference between a Claude integration that technically works and one that people actually want to use. I also want to help build the team's go-to-market materials, client-facing deliverables, and internal playbooks using the same AI-native approach we'd be selling. + +--- + +## Superpower + +Making AI products feel human. I design the layer between what the model can do and what a person actually needs. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/applicants/Victor-B-Andersen.md b/applicants/Victor-B-Andersen.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7f6eabe --- /dev/null +++ b/applicants/Victor-B-Andersen.md @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +# Victor B Andersen — Skills Profile + +--- + +## Victor B Andersen / VictorBargains +--- + +## Contact Information + How to reach you. + + - **Email:** v@victorb.net + - **LinkedIn / Twitter / other:** https://linkedin.com/in/victorandersen + --- + +## Core Identity + +Full Stack web and game developer, mentor, and AI Safety/Capabilities researcher + +--- + +## What You're Good At +Your strongest skills — technical or not. Be specific. + +- Software system architecture and design +- Technical roadmap planning +- Agentic workflow refinement + +--- + +## How You Use AI Right Now +Not what you've heard about, what you actually use. Tools, models, workflows, things you've built or shipped. + +- 300+ agent workspaces across 5 computers on a local LAN sharing agent instructions and tools through github as a control plane +- Building software for humans, software for agents, and working on patterns of agent identity across conversations, patterns of coexisting in filesystems, and distillation of knowledge +- Productivity work, machine administration, personal finances, taxes, business administration, citizen rights + +--- + +## Current or Recent Projects +What are you working on or what have you shipped? Links welcome. + +- https://wordgarden.dev placeholder for future releases of agentic harness tools +- https://awg26.wordgarden.dev placeholder for AI safety blog +- Working on a polished version of the "Qopilot" VSCode extension to maximize self knowledge and ability + +--- + +## What You Want to Build Here +I am interested in staying on the cutting edge of prompt, context, and agentic team engineering. I thrive on cross-disciplinary teams and would like to leverage real world use cases to test AI's capabilities. + +--- + +## Superpower +See a way around the problem nobody else sees. diff --git a/applicants/josh-mason.md b/applicants/josh-mason.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cd884f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/applicants/josh-mason.md @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +# Josh Mason — Skills Profile + +## Name / Handle + +Josh Mason / Joma431 + +--- + +## Core Identity + +Digital marketing and ecommerce operator. 11+ years across two Columbus, OH agencies and now Director of Digital Marketing at CLX Gaming (DTC custom-PC manufacturer). Spent the last 18 months deep in building with Claude on the side. The work is not public yet but the output is real and I use most of it daily. + +--- + +## Technical Skills + +- Ecommerce operations across Shopify, Shopify Plus, BigCommerce, Magento, and custom stacks +- Paid acquisition across Meta, Google, TikTok, YouTube, Microsoft Ads +- CRO and experimentation (Adobe Target, Optimizely, Google Optimize, VWO; 30+ concurrent programs across clients) +- Measurement and attribution (GA4, GTM, MMM/MTA via Recast, Northbeam, TripleWhale) +- Lifecycle (Klaviyo, Attentive) +- Marketplaces (Amazon Seller Central, TikTok Shop) +- SQL and custom data warehousing + +--- + +## GTM and Business Skills + +- Scaled CLX Gaming DTC revenue from $5M to $54M+ at peak on a custom ecommerce stack +- Improved direct digital marketing ROAS from 6.46 to 10.73 over 5 years +- Drove 174% YoY agency revenue growth at Easton Digital across a 200+ brand portfolio +- Managed and launched DTC brands from near-zero to seven figures in 12 months +- New client acquisition, pitch development, and onboarding at agency level +- Player-coach across team leadership at agencies and solo execution in-house + +--- + +## AI Experience + +- Claude Code daily driver. Multiple concurrent projects (see below) +- Cursor for custom local apps and development +- n8n for agent workflows and integration plumbing +- Multi-provider LLM work (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cohere) where provider diversity matters +- Translating "what is Claude actually good at right now" to non-technical operators, executives, and marketers for ~18 months. Most of them end up using it daily afterward + +--- + +## Current or Recent Projects + +None of these are public yet. Happy to walk through any on a call or demo screen-shared. + +- **MMM Attribution** — polyglot media mix modeling platform integrating Meta's Robyn (R), PyMC-Marketing, and LightweightMMM behind a FastAPI + Next.js interface. Budget optimizer, scenario planning, data pipelines. Built because commercial MMM tools I evaluated were priced for enterprise or missing the planning layer I wanted +- **Paperclip and Nexus** — agent orchestration stack. Paperclip is the underlying platform (org charts, budgeting, governance, cost monitoring, multi-adapter for Claude/Codex/Cursor/OpenCode). Nexus builds on top of it as an autonomous business operating system for managing AI-operated departments: 30+ business types, 30-day KPI evaluation framework, chat-based command center, integrated with n8n, Airbyte, Metabase, Novu +- **Developer APIs (Shopify Intel + MedData)** — two FastAPI services with Stripe billing, Sentry monitoring, async PostgreSQL, Railway deployment. Shopify Intel analyzes any Shopify store URL and returns structured intelligence (theme, installed apps, catalog, pricing, tech stack). MedData aggregates FDA, NLM, and NIH pharmaceutical and supplement data (openFDA, RxNorm, DailyMed, NADAC, NIH ODS) with drug interaction checking. Different domains, same API-as-a-service pattern +- **Job application engine** — Claude Code-driven pipeline that ingests JDs, generates tailored resumes via docx-js, runs automated quality checks, and outputs final files. Built because manual tailoring across 40+ applications was not sustainable +- **KBot** — Kalshi prediction market trading bot using Claude for probability estimation. Backtester, risk limits, Telegram alerts + +--- + +## What I Want to Build Here + +Delivery lead or implementation PM work is the cleanest fit. 11 years running complex implementations across multiple clients and stakeholders at the agencies, then running an end-to-end DTC function in-house. I can hold a scope, unblock a team, write the executive update, and debug the workflow itself. + +Also useful on AI literacy or enterprise GTM work. Translating AI capability to non-technical operators is something I already do. + +I would rather ship inside a team that is already moving than keep building solo on nights and weekends. + +--- + +## Superpower + +I move fast between "this looks interesting" and "this is running in production for something real." Eleven years of shipping work that had to generate revenue built the reflex. diff --git a/applicants/paulana-hall.md b/applicants/paulana-hall.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..829b0a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/applicants/paulana-hall.md @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +# Paulana Hall — Skills Profile + +## Paulana Hall / @paulana + +https://paulanahall.com + +--- + +## Core Identity + +I'm an engineer first. However, AI is my foundation, as I've spent the last 3 years, building, living, breathing, and teaching AI to my peers and to the community. + +--- + +## What You're Good At + +Building APIs, designing systems, writing frameworks, optimizing, identifiying real problems, ideating on community engagement opportunities, doing the work. + +--- + +## How You Use AI Right Now + +I'm Lovable Platinum certified. I use every major AI app - Lovable, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Manus, Claude, GitHub Copilot, M365 Copilot, NotebookLM, ElevenLabs, all of them. + +I've built my resume, cover letters and many websites and mobile apps using AI, even as a native website and app builder. I run to AI first for visual ideation, or to take a wealth of information and turn it into a consumable document, website, or presentation to share my ideas. + +--- + +## Current or Recent Projects + +https://thetapcard.co - A 3D digital business card app built entirely with Lovable, backed with Cloudflare and Supabase. +https://newton.dynamictech.co - A multi-industry conversational agent with additional tools and workflows for real estate professionals, education professionals, healthcare professionals, and personal finance consumers. +https://ambiance.dynamictech.co - A sound mixer that I built to produce audio samples to train my conversational agent to recognize "Hey Newton" as a voice activation keyword using AI produced samples from ElevenLabs. +https://trade.dynamictech.co - An AI powered forex and cryptocurrency trading agent, started with Claude, moved to Llama, now moving to NemoClaw. +https://thecollective.builders + +All projects above built with Lovable, enhanced using GitHub Copilot, Gemini, Claude and Manus. + +--- + +## What You Want to Build Here + +I want to build what the next generation of AI demands. + +--- + +## Superpower + +I take complex ideas and make them consumable by real people. diff --git a/applicants/rana-naquin.md b/applicants/rana-naquin.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7d0aaaa --- /dev/null +++ b/applicants/rana-naquin.md @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +# Rana Naquin + +## Role +AI Workflow & Operations Specialist + +## Summary +I translate messy, real-world workflows into structured, repeatable systems. + +Background in insurance claims adjusting where I handled complex, high-volume decision-making, documentation, and process flows under pressure. Recently transitioned into AI evaluation and workflow design, focusing on how LLMs can improve operational efficiency, reduce manual review, and standardize outputs. + +I’m not coming from theory — I come from production environments where accuracy, speed, and consistency matter. + +## Skills +- Workflow Analysis & Process Mapping +- AI Evaluation & Prompt Structuring +- QA / Edge Case Identification +- Documentation Systems & Standardization +- Operational Efficiency Optimization +- Cross-functional Communication (non-technical ↔ technical) + +## Tools +- ChatGPT / Claude / LLM platforms +- Airtable (workflow structuring) +- Google Workspace +- Notion (process documentation) +- GitHub (learning / collaboration) + +## What I’ve Done +- Evaluated AI outputs for accuracy, logic, and edge cases across structured tasks +- Built adversarial prompts to improve consistency of AI-generated outputs +- Translated complex claim scenarios into step-by-step decision workflows +- Identified failure points in systems and recommended process improvements +- Managed high-volume case handling requiring precision and documentation standards + +## What I’m Interested In +- AI workflow implementation +- LLM-powered operations systems +- Process automation for real business use cases +- Bridging business logic with AI systems + +## Why Me +I understand operations at a deep level. + +Most people either understand AI or business workflows — I understand how things actually move in production environments and where systems break. + +I can help turn AI from a concept into something that actually works inside a business. diff --git a/applicants/rose-oscar.md b/applicants/rose-oscar.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e645dbd --- /dev/null +++ b/applicants/rose-oscar.md @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +# Rose Oscar - Skills Profile + +## Name / Handle +Rose Oscar | roseo-tech + +--- + +# Identity +Experienced professional in enterprise technology partnerships, product operations, and SaaS implementation workflows with a strong background in cross-functional stakeholder management and strategic delivery coordination. + +Currently pursuing an MBA in Healthcare Management with a focus on technology innovation and operational excellence. + +--- + +# What You Are Good At +- Project and delivery coordination +- Partner and stakeholder management +- SaaS implementation workflows +- Process improvement and documentation +- Cross-functional collaboration +- AI adoption and workflow integration +- Healthcare business strategy +- Product operations + +--- + +# Roles I Can Support +- Delivery Lead +- Implementation Lead +- Operations / Workflow Management +- Partner Success +- Customer Enablement +- Technical Product Development +- AI Program Support + +--- + +# How You Use AI Right Now +- I actively use AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Google Gemini for strategic planning, professional writing, research, workflow design, and learning. +- I use AI in both personal and professional settings to support project documentation, summarize complex information, generate ideas, and improve process workflows. +- I am currently learning how to create and use agents in ChatGPT to automate tasks, improve productivity, and better understand practical AI applications for business and healthcare operations. + +--- + +# Current or Recent Projects +- Currently pursuing an MBA in Healthcare Management with a focus on innovation, strategy, and operational excellence. +- Contributed to enterprise technology initiatives at Verizon, including Network Slicing, NaaS (Network-as-a-Service) cloud management, and the Trusted Connection cybersecurity product, with a focus on product operations, stakeholder coordination, and workflow execution. +- Recent work includes enterprise SaaS partner management, implementation workflows, and cross-functional process improvement initiatives. +- Exploring opportunities to apply AI to healthcare operations, workflow automation, and strategic delivery support. + +--- + +# What You Want to Build Here +- I want to help build practical AI solutions that improve project mangement business workflows, delivery operations, and customer implementation experiences. + +- My interest is in contributing to AI-powered systems that can support enterprise teams, especially in healthcare and technology environments, where process efficiency and strategic execution are critical. + +- I would love to contribute through delivery leadership, implementation support, workflow design, and strategic operations. + +--- + +# Super power +- I bring people together across backgrounds to solve complex problems and get things done. + diff --git a/applicants/shonna-smith.md b/applicants/shonna-smith.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..11ca095 --- /dev/null +++ b/applicants/shonna-smith.md @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +# Shonna Smith — Skills Profile + +--- + +## Shonna Smith + + +--- + +## Contact Information + + - **LinkedIn:** https://linkedin.com/in/shonnasmith + +--- + +## Core Identity + +Former enterprise software architect turned product manager and loving how Claude helps me get back to the joy of building. I love being on the strategy side of product creation and sometimes miss being on the execution and UX side. I've been an independent fractional product officer for 8 years working with early and growth stage startups building B2B platforms (sector-agnostic but preference for EdTech, FinTech, Wellness Tech, Productivity Tech). + + +--- + +## What You're Good At +Your strongest skills — technical or not. Be specific. + +- Strategy and GTM development +- UX Research & Design +- Team Leadership/Coaching +- Enterprise Software Architecture +- Startup Founder Coaching/Mentoring +- Pitch Coaching +- Technical Course Author (3 Published LinkedIn Learning courses, Java & Spring Ecosystem Development) + +--- + +## How You Use AI Right Now + +I'm working with fractional solopreneur/startup clients and using AI to do the following: + +- Building internal company/departmental suite of tools (custom CRM, server monitoring/health-check utility) using Claude for strategy then prototyping, implementing in existing (Anvil) Python app +- Building MVP for B2B2C platform that is similar to GiveCampus (EdTech + FinTech + Nonprofit Fundraising), utilizing Claude plus various Prd Mgr frameworks to develop GTM strategy, Customer Discovery interview plans/scripts, and early hypothesis-based prototypes. +- Multi-channel marketing campaign calendars and copywriting for startup and nonprofit clients (Digital Marketing Strategy assistance) +- Exploring AI-assisted onboarding workflows for nonprofits setting up Google Workspace for Nonprofits and Twilio for Good — including using Claude to generate custom setup guides, training documentation, and staff onboarding materials tailored to each organization's size and use case + +--- + +## Current or Recent Projects +What are you working on or what have you shipped? Links welcome. + +- Full-stack Python-based custom CRM for transportation/logistics company +- MVP for EdTech/FinTech early stage startup (ideation and prototyping stage) targeting colleges/university institutional advancement and fundraising departments +- AI-powered enterprise collaboration suite of products for a startup (products similar to Loom and Notion + Canva) + +--- + +## What You Want to Build Here +I'm looking to build community and products with fellow AI-focused software product craftspersons. I want to own product leadership (strategy, GTM, UX, problem validation, etc.) and work with fellow talented engineers. + +--- + +## Superpower + +Simplifying and demystifying the complex. Keeping myself and teammates focused on the value we should be creating, not just the code we're creating. + diff --git a/skills-template.md b/skills-template.md index e185b36..7341fb3 100644 --- a/skills-template.md +++ b/skills-template.md @@ -11,6 +11,14 @@ Your name, GitHub handle, or both. --- +## Contact Information + How to reach you. + + - **Email:** + - **LinkedIn / Twitter / other:** + + --- + ## Core Identity Who you are and what you do. One or two lines, written like you'd say it to a peer.