Sigmund Waldfürst, Senior Prompt Engineer
| (123) 456-7890 | Holmdel, New Jersey, US
SUMMARY
Curious tinkerer passionate about FOSS, privacy, and simple, elegant systems. Builds cool things with code and text.
EDUCATION
Miskatonic University 2017-09-01 — 2021-06-01
Bachelor of Science - Reality Engineering
SKILLS
Prompt Engineering (Expert): LLMs, Few-shot learning, Zero-shot prompting, Chain of Thought
*nix Systems (Advanced): Arch Linux, Shell scripting, Automation
Writing (Advanced): Technical Writing, Markdown, Minimalist Blogging
EXPERIENCE
Prompt Labs Inc. | Senior Prompt Engineer 2024-01-01 — Present
https://promptlabs.ai

Leading the design of powerful and efficient prompts for AI models in creative, technical, and strategic contexts.

  • Built a modular prompt framework used across multiple internal tools.
  • Championed FOSS practices within AI prompt pipelines.
Prompt Labs Inc. | Prompt Engineer 2021-06-01 — 2023-12-31
https://promptlabs.ai

Crafted prompts to improve LLM output in coding, summarization, and reasoning tasks.

  • Developed a prompt tuning system for knowledge retrieval tasks.
  • Collaborated with product teams to design user-facing prompt interfaces.
Federal Bureau of Control (FBC) | Junior Containment Analyst 2020-01-01 — 2021-05-01
https://fbc.gov

Assisted in the stabilization and classification of newly discovered Altered Items, with a focus on linguistic anomalies and cognitohazardous materials.

  • Developed internal tooling for tracking semantic drift in shifting object documentation.
  • Deployed emergency prompts to contain a memetic outbreak in Sector ███, preventing Class 3 escalation.
PUBLICATIONS
Cryptic Interfaces: UX Patterns in the Prehuman Archives Oct 13, 2023
Kadath Computing Quarterly
https://kadathcomputing.org/issues/2023-fall

A short speculative paper analyzing the interaction patterns of the Elder Things' stone tablet systems, drawing parallels with modal text editors and UNIX.

PROJECTS
morandi.nvim
https://github.com/morandi-theme/morandi.nvim

A Neovim colorscheme inspired by the soft tones of Giorgio Morandi’s paintings.

epic-games-notifier
https://github.com/z66n/epic-games-notifier

A simple tool to get notified about free games on Epic Store.

AWARDS
Director’s Ribbon of Extraordinary Action 2020-08-13
Federal Bureau of Control

Awarded for exceptional performance and improvisational prompt engineering during the 'Cascade Loop Incident,' which caused recursive documentation and localized timestream corruption in the Containment Wing.

VOLUNTEERING
Technical Archivist | Dyer Foundation for Polar Memory 2022-10-01 — 2023-03-01
https://dyerfoundation.org

Digitized and preserved lost expedition logs from the 1930-31 Antarctic research missions, using shell scripts and OCR tooling to restore fragmented documentation.

  • Recovered over 5,000 lines of corrupted expedition metadata from decaying media.
  • Built a searchable terminal-based index system for cryptic glyphs and ancient cartographic scans.
LANGUAGES
English (Native) , Shell (Fluent)
INTERESTS
Free and Open Source Software [ Privacy tools , Window managers , Neovim configs ] , Digital Minimalism [ Self-hosting , Small web , Terminal UIs ]
REFERENCES
Sigmund is a brilliant engineer whose grasp of the ineffable intricacies of symbolic systems surpasses even the academics of Miskatonic. I trust them implicitly with both cognition loops and eldritch interfaces.
— Prof. William Dyer