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Base DSA Systems AI-Res Staff CUDA Wealth Library Strike
Staff AI Engineer Precision Protocol ($450K+ TC)

NUCLEAR ARSENAL

Piyush Kumar: C master β†’ CUDA Architect β†’ CAT1 DSA crusher β†’ Matrix mult expert β†’ Cloudflare pro. Weaponizing 500+ AI weapons for 20x Velocity.

Launch 23:17 Strike Generational Wealth

P1: C Warrior β†’ Python Deity

Months 1-3. Precision Conversion. Bridge C mastery to PyTorch Matrix foundations. Ship the Gradebook API (Cloudflare).

LC TARGET 120 Easy / 25min
MATH CORE Strang 18.06 / 3B1B
SHIP MVP Gradebook API v1.0
PROTOCOL 05:45 AM Start
Phase 1: Coding (Elite 200+)
Cursor AI Copilot Codeium Ollama Claude Dev Replit AI Windsurf AI Blackbox AI Phind Aider
Deep Dive: C-struct to Python class inheritance, map/reduce in Python vs C loops, LU Decomposition intuition.

P2: DSA β†’ Nuclear Legend

Months 4-6. NeetCode 150 Precision Strike. 350 Mediums solved via CAT1 pressure. Build a 1M Ops/Sec Distributed Cache.

LC MEDIUM 350 Solved / Zero Bug
INFRA CORE Dist. Cache (1M/s)
PATTERN Graph BFS/DFS Expert
COMPETE Top 5% Global Rtg
Phase 2: DSA (Pattern 150+)
LeetCode AI NeetCode AI AlgoExpert AI Pramp AI Sourcegraph Cody Blind75 AI DP Master AI Graph AI
Deep Dive: LRU eviction logic, Segment Trees for range queries, Atomic pointer operations in Python/C.

P3: Systems + ML Precision

Months 7-12. Production ML Strike. Kaggle Top 3% Track. Ship the Production RAG Code Tutor + ML Pipelines.

ML STACK FastAPI / XGBoost / PG
AI RAMP Transformers / RAG
KAGGLE Gold Medal Pursuit
OUTCOME $160K SDE1 Target
Phase 3 AI Power-Ops (Systems & Infra)
FastAPI AI ByteByteGo DesignGurus Docker AI K8s AI Terraform AI Postgres AI Amazon Q
Deep Dive: Vector DB indexing (HNSW), Rate Limiting (Token Bucket), Mini-batch gradient descent from scratch.

P4: AI Research (NeurIPS)

Months 13-18. Precision Deep Learning. arXiv submission: "GitHub -> LC Prediction". Mastery of Multi-Agent AutoGen.

RESEARCH Code2Vec / GraphSAGE
AGENTIC AutoGen / LangGraph
PUBLISH NeurIPS / ICML Target
OUTCOME $340K L4 FAANG
Phase 4 AI Power-Ops (Research Core)
WandB AI HuggingFace LangChain LlamaIndex Jupyter AI Colab Pro Paperspace AutoGen AI
Research Lab: Attention is All You Need, GraphSAGE original paper, Deep Learning (Goodfellow).

P5: FAANG Staff Lead

Months 19-24. High-Scale Leadership. Lead the Competition System project. Negotiating $420K+ Bidding War.

DESIGN Scale Kaggle / Copilot
STAFF LP Ownership & Dive Deep
SYSTEMS Multi-Region Mastery
TARGET $420K+ Staff AI
Phase 5 AI Power-Ops
Pramp AI STAR Method AI SysDesign AI Leadership Coach Interv.io
Arch Patterns: Saga (Distributed Trans), CQRS, Change Data Capture (CDC), and Backpressure handling.
Deep Dive: CAP Theorem tradeoffs, Consensus (Raft/Paxos), Mentorship & Technical Strategy.

The Resource Arsenal

The ultimate toolset for your daily execution. Consistency beats intensity. Every commit brings you closer.

ALGO CORE NeetCode 150
AI ENGINE Karpathy Zero-Hero
SYSTEMS ByteByteGo / Alex Xu
HABIT GitHub Streak 365+

P7: The Bidding War

End Game Strategy. Leveraging 3+ Staff AI offers to maximize TC and equity. Securing the Mountain View transition.

OFFER TIER $420K+ TC L6
STRATEGY Negotiation Expert
DESTINY Mountain View
LEGACY Staff AI Engineer
Negotiation & Offers AI
Levels.fyi AI Offer Optimizer GSU Estimator Bidding War Bot
Negotiation Ritual: "Never Split the Difference" applied to FAANG L6. Leverage asymmetric info for sign-on parity.
Secure Final Offer
Advanced C Weaponization

P8: CUDA & Kernel Striking

The Staff AI Edge. Weaponizing your C mastery for high-performance AI. Writing custom CUDA kernels and Triton optimizations for 100x inference speed.

COMPUTE CUDA / SIMD / AVX
OPTIMIZE Triton / FlashAttn
KERNEL Custom MatMul v2
ROI $420K+ Technical Gap
Low-Level AI Ops
NSight Compute CUDA Toolkit Triton ML TVM MLIR
Deep Dive: Memory hierarchy (Shared vs Global), Warp-level primitives, Coalesced memory access.
L6 Strategic Endgame

P9: Generational Wealth

Month 24+. Beyond the salary. Managing $1.5M+ in equity (RSUs/GSUs), angel investing in AI startups, and securing your legacy as a Staff AI Leader.

EQUITY $1M+ GSU Refreshers
INVEST AI Angel Portfolio
INFLUENCE CTO / Founder Track
DESTINY Freedom & Impact
Wealth Ops: Tax-optimized brokerage, secondary market liquidity (Carta), and venture networking.
The Repository of Knowledge

The Staff AI Library

Mission-critical reading for 10x architectural depth.

πŸ“œ Core Research Papers

  • β€’ Scaling Laws (Kaplan et al., 2020)
  • β€’ Chain of Thought (Wei et al., 2022)
  • β€’ FlashAttention (Dao et al., 2022)
  • β€’ Llama Architecture (Touvron et al., 2023)

πŸ“š Architectural Tomes

  • β€’ Designing Data-Intensive Apps (Martin Kleppmann)
  • β€’ Deep Learning (Goodfellow, Bengio, Courville)
  • β€’ Staff Engineer (Will Larson)
  • β€’ The Pragmatic Programmer (Thomas/Hunt)
TACTICAL MULTIPLIERS

AI Velocity Heatmap

Calculated Time-to-TC conversion rates based on current market signals.

20X

TIER 0 | CORE

  • [SYSTEM] GITHUB COPILOT
  • [IDLE] CURSOR AI
  • [SYNC] REPLIT CORE
  • [LOCAL] OLLAMA L3.2
10X

TIER 1 | COGNITIVE

  • [LOGIC] CLAUDE 3.5 SONNET
  • [MATH] PHIND RESEARCH
  • [PATTERN] LEETCODE AI
05X

TIER 2 | OPS

  • [INFRA] AMAZON Q
  • [DEVOPS] DOCKER AI
  • [AGENT] LANGCHAIN PRO
SYSTEM READY

COMMAND: 23:17 IST

AUTHORIZATION GRANTED | INITIATING STRIKE

OBJECTIVE $450K+ TC L6
VELOCITY 20.0X PEAK
EXECUTE ULTIMATE STRIKE REBOOT
Dive into Mastery