Fernando Rodriguez

Software Engineer | Building stuff with AI

[career-ops @careeropsHQ]

career-ops v1.35.0, "the wider net": nine new job sources, from US school district boards to OCC Mundial in Mexico, plus a master profile you build by approving each fact from your CV.

161 PRs from 86 people, 50 of them first-timers. thank you all

https://t.co/aKJW0hNwQT

[Fernando Rodriguez @FReptar0]

Earlier this year I stopped applying altogether. Burnt out, nothing working.

But I found out career-ops, got the job, and never left the project. User → contributor → maintainer 🫡

Mine's a small story inside @santifer's. Read his.

[santifer @santifer]

Companies use AI to filter candidates. I just gave candidates AI to choose companies.

I built this to find my own job: 740 listings evaluated. 68 applied. 12 interviews. 1 offer.

Six months later, I left that job to work on career-ops full time.

[santifer @santifer]

The talent lead of a16z's @speedrun opened a PR to career-ops this week.

He didn't ask me to integrate his talent network. He opened the PR himself: 10,000+ open roles across 200+ a16z portfolio startups, connected to the community.

Before merging, he passed the same provenance gate as anyone else: identity confirmed out of band, domain control proven cryptographically. Cleared it in a few hours without blinking.

Here's the part I keep thinking about. The engineers who run an open source, local-first job-search tool built for the agentic era are, almost by definition, the people these startups are trying to hire. The pipeline connected itself.

I didn't plan any of this. But it turns out that if you build honestly for one side of a market, the other side shows up with a pull request.

[Fernando Rodriguez @FReptar0]

@santifer Congratulations Santiago 🎉🎉 let's keep building something meaningful and help others! Signed it!!!!

[santifer @santifer]

read it and sign: https://t.co/hnG1Jj1Csp

[santifer @santifer]

career-ops crossed 60,000 stars today.

so today the practice behind it gets a name. we wrote down how this community searches for work: six principles, and nine rights every job seeker should have. it's called the CareerOps Manifesto.

the name belongs to everyone who practices it. career-ops stays the first implementation, nothing more.

if it reads like yours, sign it. link below.

[career-ops @careeropsHQ]

career-ops v1.19.0 is out.

~40 features, ~18 fixes since 1.18, and most of them are community PRs:

· prompt-caching + a deterministic HTML CV renderer: big cuts to token cost
· a zero-LLM JD skill-gap checker: tailor honestly, never claim a skill you don't have
· Meituan, Tencent, LaraJobs job-board providers
· Traditional Chinese + Hindi + Chinese salary-reliability tiers

still local, still free, still AI-agnostic.

https://t.co/PgEv1XNpAf

[santifer @santifer]

Big update this one. Let's build together

[santifer @santifer]

Grateful of this amazing community we are building on Discord, with updates every other day

[santifer @santifer]

Check the new UI for career-ops and optimized for token usage, no more tokenmaxxing (if you don’t want to)

[santifer @santifer]

Nice update this one, check it out

[career-ops @careeropsHQ]

career-ops v1.14.0 is out.

18 features, 6 fixes. the big one:

openai-eval → run job evals on any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (openrouter, deepseek, glm, or local llama.cpp / lm studio). point it at a cheap model, cut your token bill.

also: first-class codex / kimi / grok support, 3 new job boards (weworkremotely, comeet, personio), and a fix for a fan-out that could burn tens of millions of tokens per run.

free. MIT. local-first.

https://t.co/IFwdIAmBmW

[Charles Maddock @charles_maddock]

New LLM benchmark just dropped

[career-ops @careeropsHQ]

career-ops v1.13.0 is live 🚀

→ New boards: BambooHR + Breezy
→ Zero-token liveness checks (no more wasted tokens on dead links)
→ Dashboard upgrades + Polish locale 🇵🇱
→ Plus a web UI (2.0 RC) for the curious

Free & open source 👇
https://t.co/jCSJpkB6k4

[career-ops @careeropsHQ]

The golden age of open source, running in a terminal near you. 👇

career-ops: free, open AI that arms the candidate. Companies use AI to filter you, we give you AI to choose them back.

⭐ 48K · MIT · yours.
https://t.co/ORxmkGzcJN

[santifer @santifer]

Career-ops crossed today a huge milestone, 55k ⭐️ on GitHub. Why? Hiring market is broken, and there’s need for a solution. Releasing a nice UX that make easier finding a job everyone looking for one, would be a nice next step. Check it out ⬇️

[santifer @santifer]

It runs a headless playwright agentic session so the UX is friction-less. Applying to jobs has never been easier, in a same unified interface

[Ibrahim Elkamali 🇺🇦 @IbrahimElkamali]

New Claude code update is crazy

[santifer @santifer]

Check it out 👇 https://t.co/bH3n1ldjiT

[santifer @santifer]

Job search tools charge $50-140/month — to people who don't have a job.

I built an AI system that evaluated 740+ listings, generated 100+ tailored CVs, and got me hired as Head of Applied AI.

Then I open-sourced it.

28K stars later, here's the master plan: 🧵