Synthropic - Detection Engineer + GenAI Email Response
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:date: 2025-11-03

Subject: Detection Engineer + GenAI Role - Russell Ballestrini

Hi John,

The "babysitting" concept resonates. I've spent the last 3 years building AI-powered tools & the reality is exactly what you described: sometimes brilliant, sometimes chaotic. At Coursemojo (2022-2025), I built AI-powered educational tools using OpenAI & Anthropic LLMs with production safeguards to keep language models on the rails. I also authored uncloseai.com—documenting AI inference implementations across 42 programming languages—which required deep understanding of LLM behavior, prompt engineering, & production deployment patterns.

The opportunity to guide LLMs toward production-ready detection engineering is compelling. Teaching AI agents to reason about logs, threats, & detection strategies combines the chaos-wrangling I've done with the systematic thinking required for security workflows. I'd love to discuss whether my AI/ML production experience fits what you're building at Synthropic.

Resume attached.

Russell Ballestrini
russell@ballestrini.net
860-333-3047
https://russell.ballestrini.net
