I'm a self-directed systems and AI engineer available now for contract work — short projects or ongoing, hourly or fixed-bid. Over the past year, solo and mostly from scratch, I've built an LLM training engine and research project (AGPT), an AI agent framework that autonomously runs my own production infrastructure (copious), a semantic-memory/RAG library (memo), a C11 YAML 1.2 parser that passes all 308 test-suite cases and outperforms every other compliant parser on real-world benchmarks (YAM), and a serialization format about half the size of JSON that parses ~3x faster (C0DATA). I've also maintained Ruby Facets since 2005. I work comfortably from model internals all the way to production ops, and I ship — every project I list is real, running code, not a demo. Portfolio (all links live): https://tabcomputing.com/portfolio Especially keen on AI/ML, systems, and performance work, but I'm glad to take on strong engineering of any shape. Rate: $60/hr. Timezone US Eastern, flexible on hours. Email: [thomas@tabcomputing.com](mailto:thomas@tabcomputing.com) — or the portfolio has an AI assistant you can brief directly and she'll pass it to me.   submitted by   /u/transfire [link]   [comments]