Medium, high, or elite capability and capacity to perform/deliver, request T&M Work Agreement (AI+.. capacity)
For detailed job specifics beyond what's shown here, review the attached spreadsheet (ask for a passcode to test if the applicant reads job details)
What levels of experience are you qualified to operate?
Level 1: Here’s the problem, the solution, and how to implement it.
Level 2: Here’s the problem and the solution. Figure out how to implement it.
Level 3: Here’s the problem. Figure out the solution.
Level 4: Here’s a list of problems. Identify the most impactful one to solve.
Level 5: Find all the problems and determine which are worth solving.
Level 6: Predict future problems and create systems to prevent them.
Send a PM regarding your experience with AI Tools like Zed, AlphaCode, DeepSeek R1, o3 or o1 Pro (repoprompt.com + o1-xml-parser); and screenshare capacity a day/week/season?
AI+ Platform+ Prompt Engineer (DevOps Bonus): Epic Delivery Payment or T&M Work Agreement (Request)
Working Agreement: acceptable successful build deployments (daily/weekly delivery reviews)
Have you or your team developed or edited iPXE scripts?
https://mirror.starlingx.windriver.com/mirror/starlingx/master/debian/
https://mirror.starlingx.windriver.com/mirror/starlingx/feature/caracal/debian/
// CoPilot/Cursor/Zed Gitlab/PHP/Symfony AI Platform Developer
// DevOps / Site Reliability Engineers* (see scope of work)
Measure Time to First Review?
Elite: Less than one day?
High performers: Between one day and one week?
Medium: Between one week and one month?
Low: Between one month and six months?
How about Lead Time for Changes or time for a commit to be deployed into production?
20+ Year LLC may* assist in onboarding medium, high, or elite performance agencies/freelancers.
Proven track record of shipping production-grade software, especially AI-enhanced products
Ability to write reliable, reviewable, and efficient code that performs at scale
A keen eye for the user experience details that make a product genuinely exceptional
Eagerness to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment
Passion for developer tools, improving the coding experience, daily pairing, and async code reviews
Seeking passionate engineers ready to push the boundaries of AI-assisted development, turning cutting-edge AI concepts into features developers love. What's your most technically advanced project worked on?
Interview Prep / Zoom Availability: (link removed)
How many minimum UpWork or Tmetric active hours a week may you or your team require?
Applicant preps enough for hour eval + hour review; two unpaid interview prep hours, okay? Request three paid interview hours (budget approval)
Step 1: Unpaid Prep?
Acceptable Agreement (Billing), Objective (Capability Delivery), and Indicator (Deliverable Measure)
Step 2: Interview Priorities (AnyDesk, Phone, Slack, Teams, or preferably UpWork+Zoom?); Unpaid Prep (Eval 1h)?
Step 3: Interview Review (Phone, Slack, Teams, or Zoom?); Unpaid Prep (Review 1h)?
Step 4: Paid Interview (1-3h)?
Step 5: Offer/Onboard?
Scope of Work (DevOps Performance and Platform Engineers SoW):
AWS + PagerDuty, Gitlab Ultimate (DevOps & PM tools), Hostbill All Inclusive + OpenStack/StarlingX, and Mobile App (Ie. WordPress plugins) configuration?
Specify questions: May SME write rather than request sales calls or "meetings that could have been emails"?
Looking forward to acknowledging receipt of a proposal and project alignment to refine a possibly acceptable proposal by agreeing on project scope, deliverables, timelines, and other expectations before sending a contract offer. Ie. DevOps or Platform Engineer MVP SoW; if T&M is required, request an hourly working agreement:
Agreement acceptability/proposal prep budget limitations?
[ACTION] *PM a request (working agreement prep spreadsheet) to update capability and capacity alignment, as well as refine any open questions to deliberate Acceptable Preferences (8 agreements, ~ 30 potential objectives, and ~ 40 indicators) before onboarding.
Update capability/capacity working agreement prep without demanding step 2 occur before step 1 (ask questions via chat and request spreadsheet)
Awaiting program milestone estimates, paid hourly or on delivery of acceptable optimized design, algorithms, data structures, and source code, built, compiled, peer-reviewed, and documented.