Free Agent Looking for Work & JSONResume
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:author: Russell Ballestrini
:slug: free-agent-looking-for-work-jsonresume
:date: 2025-12-06
:tags: Opinion
:status: published

Free agent looking for work.

I wear many hats & can fill many roles. I'm excellent at research & development to quickly bring products & services to market. I have experience pivoting tech stacks to significantly reduce costs of goods sold.

We also don't have to work together directly. My services can hook into your systems as you need. Free ML inference endpoints via `uncloseai <https://uncloseai.com>`_, remote code execution via `unsandbox <https://unsandbox.com>`_, web crawling, & more. Check out the full portfolio:

* `unturf Services (JSONResume) </uploads/unturf.resume.json>`_

Thank you for listening. 🟣

* `Russell's Resume (PDF) </uploads/russell.ballestrini.resume.pdf>`_
* `Russell's Resume (JSONResume) </uploads/russell.ballestrini.resume.json>`_

Why JSONResume?
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`JSONResume is an open standard for structuring resume data in machine-readable JSON format. <https://jsonresume.org>`_ It matters because:

**For job seekers:** Your resume becomes portable. No more reformatting for every job board. Export to any theme or format. Own your data instead of letting m$ hold it hostage.

**For recruiters & ATS:** Structured data means accurate parsing. No more "experience: 10 years" getting misread as "10 year old." Keywords, skills, & dates all live in predictable fields.

**For Machine Learning:** As hiring increasingly involves LLMs screening candidates, JSONResume gives them clean structured input instead of asking them to parse PDFs. Your qualifications get evaluated, not your formatting choices.

The future of hiring is machines talking to machines. JSONResume is how we make that work without losing our humanity in the process. Self-host your resume data. Let the algorithms find you.
