I spent 15 years working in Recruitment of some form, so I appreciate how a list of skills can be helpful. I’ve listed these with an honest opinion of where I perhaps sit when compared to an average entry level developer.
Advanced
Agentic Frameworks
Sandboxed Environments (E2B, Docker)
RAG (primarily Hybrid-Graph)
TTS/STT (NVIDIA Riva, Piper, Whisper)
Local Model Deployment
Data Analytics (K-Means, Regression etc)
UI (AG_UI, Gradio, CLI)
Intermediate
Fine-Tuning (PyTorch)
Knowledge Graphs
Inference Server (vLLM, NVIDIA, Transformers)
Vision Language Models
Observability (Langsmith, Phoenix, Open-Telemetry)
Distributed Networking
Reinforcement Learning (Jetson)
Basic
Image Generation
Advanced
Python (Torch etc)
SQL
Intermediate
C++/C#
VBA
JS/ReactNative
Typescript
Basic
Go
Rust
Leadership
Business Processes
Managed teams of up to 35
Interviewed 1000+ to exec level
Project function lead for Workday Implementation
Project-Managed business merger for department of ~100
Restructured large departments, including headcount & complex processes/workflows
Steerco on £100m project
Built an function from greenfield to 15 headcount in FTSE 250
Hugging Face
NVIDEA
Agentic
Google/GCP
Microsoft
Transformers, Smolagents (CodeAgent), Datasets, Gradio, Sheets
Riva, Jetson, NIM / Nemo / Triton, cuda, cudf, cudnn
Langchain, LLAMA-Index, Google ADK, Azure, Copilotkit, Firebase Prototyping, MCP
Vertex AI Workbench, BigQuery
Azure AI