[Timoha]

Currently have some free time between jobs to explore what actually makes me passionate, so threads like this are really useful to get inspired!

Been starting various projects to quickly figure out what I like and don’t like. Realized that I miss working on highly technical projects after working on consumer apps for a couple of years. So as a result been revamping my resume and planning my next steps in my software engineering career. There are some really cool companies out there in the space of databases and distributed systems.

As part of scouting for jobs built some little tools with help of LLMs to tailor my resume to job positions.

Also, rediscovered that I enjoy solving little algorithm problems after practicing with LeetCode. ChatGPT makes as if I have my own tutor to explain and hint when necessary, reminded me of university and study groups.

[UpAndOut]

I'm a math student with a similar desire to learn more about these topics. I've asked around at my university about forming a study group around the following courses (which I myself would really like to study), but there seems to be little interest: Stanford CS143; MIT 6.824; MIT 6.001 .

Would you like to collaborate on something along these lines?

[Timoha]

I’ve taken CS162 (operating systems) a while back at UC Berkeley and that along with networking, CS168, were my favorite classes. And they probably were the most useful going into the industry as well, so I highly recommend that you dig in even if you don’t find folks to study with. Makes me wonder if someone already created a service to match study groups for open content classes from top universities like this