# About Backstory

The backstory about Backstory...

## Backstory is two things

1. Backstory serves as an interactive Q&A that let's potential employers ask questions about someone's work history (aka "Backstory".) Based on the content the job seeker has provided to the RAG system, that can provide insights into that individual's resume and curriculum vitae that are often left out when people are trying to fit everything onto one page.
2. A resume builder -- if you have a job position, and you think this person might be a candidate, paste your job description and have a resume produced based on their data. If it looks interesting, reach out to them. If not, hopefully you've gained some insight into what drives them.

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2. As a potential job seeker, you can self host this environment and generate resumes for yourself.

  While this project was generally built for self-hosting with open source models, you can use any of the frontier models. The API adapters in this project can be configured to use infrastructure hosted from Anthropic, Google, Grok, and OpenAI (alphabetical.) For information, see [https://github.com/jketreno/backstory/README.md](https://github.com/jketreno/backstory/README.md#Frontier_Models).


## This application was developed to achieve a few goals:

1. See if it is realistic to self-host AI LLMs. Turns out, it is -- with constraints. I've been meaning to write a blog post about what to buy to build an AI PC that can run the latest "small" (7B) parameter models.
2. Provide a recent example of my capabilities; many of my projects while working for Intel were internally facing. The source code to this project is available on [GitHub](https://github.com/jketreno/backstory). It doesn't touch on much of my history of work, however it does represent the pace at which I can adapt and develop useful solutions to fill a gap.
3. My career at Intel was diverse. Over the years, I have worked on many projects almost everywhere in the computer ecosystem. That results in a resume that is either too long, or too short. This application is intended to provide a quick way for employers to ask the LLM about me. You can view my resume in totality, or use the Resume Builder to post your job position to see how I fit. Or go the Backstory and ask questions about the projects mentioned in my resume.

## Some questions

Q. <ChatQuery text="Why aren't you providing this as a Platform As a Service (PaaS) application?"/>

A. I could; but I don't want to store your data. I also don't want to have to be on the hook for support of this service. I like it, it's fun, but it's not what I want as my day-gig, you know? If it was, I wouldn't have built this app...

Q. <ChatQuery text="Why can't I just ask Backstory these questions?"/>

A. Try it. See what you find out :)