I'm a 2nd-year CS student, but I came to the major sideways.
Before college I owned and operated a small chain of mattress
stores. Payroll, inventory, leads, the whole thing. That's
where I learned that the gap between a decent business and a
great one is usually how much busywork the owner is drowning
in. Optimization stuck with me.
I started prompt engineering in early 2020, back when "AI
tools" meant Google Colab notebooks and NightCafe for image
generation. The proper code came later, in the last couple
of years. So my hands-on time with language models is longer
than my time as a "developer," which is rarer than it sounds.
I'm trilingual: English, Portuguese, Spanish, all fluent. I
grew up in Brazil and have been a US citizen since 2011. If
your customers or operations span Latin America, the US, or
Brazil, that's a moat I can lend you.