Retired software engineer Stefaan Remi Meeuws (60) from Belgium wants to become an AI Software Engineer

Introductions
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I’d like to meet online with like-minded, experienced software engineers who are making or who have made the transition to AI software engineer.

I will be looking for (open-source?) projects to contribute to, in any way that I can.

Practical: I am equipped to work remotely. Also willing to relocate, preferably to the U.S. again. I used to live in San Francisco, CA; Chicago, IL; New York, NY; and other places both in the U.S., the U.K. and Europe.

Resume in a nutshell:

  • 2 degrees in mechanical engineering (Belgium)
  • BSc computer science 1987, Ostend, Belgium - Immigration attorneys in Delaware hold my diploma’s, references and other qualifications.
  • languages: fluent English, Dutch, Flemish, French
  • Master Developer PenPoint OS (predecessor to Apple’s Newton, iPad)
  • 60 years of age, tons and tons of practical, international experience, some work classified, some work done under NDA, some work in the public domain
  • founder of 101Net, Inc. in San Francisco, CA
  • early retirement around 2002
  • re-activated in 2025 to become AI software engineer, given the anticipated demand for such skilled workers
  • will be busy during 2025 studying (Coursera, other, …)
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Hello Stefaan, I’m so glad to know about you and read your intro here. I’ve been thinking that it’s too late for me to jump into the ML & AI. Few months back I started with Python and then gave up. Now, I again motivated myself to study and take it more seriously. In order to do that I started with the Linear Algebra for Machine Learning and Data Science course. I hope that with the help of community I’d be able to keep myself on the track and we’ll succeed together.