Edwin Meyer is an MIT-trained software engineer with over two decades of hands-on full life-cycle experience and 11 years focused professionally on Ruby on Rails across hospitals, government, fintech, and high-traffic consumer sites. He currently evaluates and improves large language model outputs at Remotasks/Outlier while continuing to maintain and build Rails applications through his consultancy, demonstrating a rare blend of AI evaluation insight and deep backend craftsmanship. His career shows repeated success in modernizing legacy systems—migrating apps to AWS, applying the Strangler Fig pattern, and designing APIs and multi-tenant architectures—so he navigates both greenfield and brownfield projects comfortably. Comfortable in regulated and mission-critical environments, he has worked for federal agencies and medical institutions and holds an active Public Trust background from USCIS work. Known for quietly taking ownership when teams lose momentum, he pairs statistical thinking (Bayesian categorizers) with pragmatic engineering to deliver reliable, maintainable systems. Based in Chicago, he’s available for roles that leverage his Rails expertise and growing specialization in LLM evaluation and feedback.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, BSEE Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Computer Science extension school coursework, Computer Science extension school coursework at Harvard University
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