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EDWIN W. MEYER
PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Chicago, Illinois
edwin@alum.mit.edu
AI Large Language Model (LLM)
& Ruby on Rails Development
& Ruby on Rails Development
An MIT grad software engineer, I have 20+ years full life-cycle experience, from
requirements gathering, design & development to maintenance. I have recent
experience as an AI Large Language Model (LLM) evaluator & trainer using Python,
Java, JavaScript, C, and C++. Prior to my recent AI experience, I worked in Ruby on
Rails for 14 years, including Node.js, Postgres, MySQL, and front end languages. In
addition, I also have training, authorship, consulting, and liaison experience.
EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. B.S. Electrical Eng. National Merit Scholar.
Harvard University. Graduate extension school coursework in expert systems, C++,
object-oriented programming, and discrete mathematics.
WEB LINKS
http://edwinmeyer.com – Includes recommendations from colleagues.
http://linkedin.com/in/edwinmeyer – Includes recommendations from colleagues.
http://github.com/edwinmeyer – Contains several tutorials, coding and design demo
projects.
LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL (LLM) EXPERIENCE
Outlier (San Francisco) February 2024 – Present
Evaluate the output of various large language models for the Scale.com subsidiary
Outlier. The work involves various techniques, including:
1) Comparing the output of two or more chatbot responses to a provided prompt, often
in Python, selecting the best, and often correcting bad responses so the LLM can learn
from this.
2) Writing a prompt and specifying the language to be used to compute the solution,
then evaluating the output and correcting code bugs.
3) Reviewing and commenting on the work of others.
Work performed remotely from my Chicago home office.
Environment: Custom evaluation web framework, Python 3, Java, JavaScript, C, and
C++.
SUMMARY OF OTHER PROJECT SKILLS
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LIST OF RUBY ON RAILS POSITIONS
Sixteen+ projects since 2008, with a mix of primarily server-side and ancillary
technologies plus front-end development. All projects run on a Linux server, and most
work was performed on a MacBook Pro workstation. Many projects used some form
of the agile methodology.
Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School (Amherst, MA) July 2022 – November 2023
Bus Patrol (Lorton, VA) October 2022 – March 2023
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (Washington, DC) April, 2021 – May, 2022
Finastra USA Corporation (Austin, TX) January – April, 2021
Pearson Education (Bloomington, MN) May – September, 2020
Mayo Clinic Laboratories (Rochester, MN) August, 2019 – January, 2020
Nutrien Ag Solutions (Loveland, CO) April, 2018 – January, 2019
University of Illinois Medical School (Chicago, IL) October, 2017 – February, 2018
Pinnacol Assurance (Denver, CO) March, 2016 – February, 2017
Huron Consulting Group (Chicago, IL) March – June, 2015
Cars.com (Chicago, IL) August 2014 – March 2015
Sears Holdings Corporation (Chicago, IL) October 2012 – November 2013
Local Offer Network (Chicago, IL) February – May 2012
Aon Hewitt Corp. (Lincolnshire, IL) May 2011 – January 2012
Argonne National Laboratory (Lemont, IL) August 2010 – January 2011
Metromix.com (Chicago, IL) December 2009 – March 2010
Venture Interactive (Harrisonburg, VA) December 2008 – September 2009 & October
2012 – November 2013
OTHER EXPERIENCE – HIGHLIGHTS
McDavid, Inc. (Woodridge, IL) February 2013 – March 2014
Assumed responsibility for deployment, maintenance, and improvement of the hybrid
Rails/Windows Server sales website of a sports protection equipment manufacturer
following development of the new Rails application by a web design studio.
Digimarc Corporation (Burlington, MA) – Analysis, design and implementation of
several drivers license systems. (Java J2EE & C++)
Polaroid Corp. (Bedford, MA) – Analysis, design and implementation of several drivers
license systems. (Java J2EE & C++)
Lotus Development Corp. – Sales Engineer - Munich, Germany. Provided support and
trainings in German on Lotus Notes for value added resellers and customers.
Lotus Development Corp. – Principal Software Engineer – Cambridge, MA. C-API
development for a database product.
M.I.T. Project MAC – Staff Member - Cambridge, MA. MULTICS operating system
development including: ARPANET software interface, graphics system, system
internals.
OTHER
· Competent in German; studied Russian.
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