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Currently building RAG and LLM tooling. R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: https://github.com/caleb-bb (happy to send full r\u00e9sum\u00e9 by email) Email: beerscb@gmail.com Backend/distributed sys", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? 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