I was laid off and discriminated. The people from Aguadilla/San Juan Puerto Rico (peers), USA Massachusetts (product owner) and one dude from India (Manager), decided to ask me to lead an innovation project relating to AI. I accepted and started an interview process with the current subject matter expert, designed and developed a Cognitive AI Agentic system with Memory - Retrieval Augmented Generation, few shot learning and adaptive prompting engineering with Bayesian optimization for the memory system. The short term memory was intended for SKUs, the long term memory was for document version evolution and a separate DB served for context. The data was word docx files, so the justification for the custom ETL was that LangChain does not process Docx and the data needed to be exactly as on the original document that had 4 channels of data containment: images, tables, text and other files (csv, xls, pdf, html, docx, etc). The potential of the project was huge, it could have automated many tasks of the team leading to faster dev time, less re-work before testing due file errors and in the future, overall automated testing for the specific process. In addition to the entire custom AI architecture, a custom data engineering ETL with OCR (ML integration) pipeline was created and Industrial Engineering methods for process improvement was implemented to provide the analysis after meeting with the SME.... The whole project was cut off before reaching the implementation of AIOS for better managing the LLM and non LLM tasks for better efficiency, and before implementation on the cloud. The manager from India admitted that the people of Puerto Rico, and that one product owner from Massachusetts, did not know anything about what I was doing, like not one single thing about AI/ML nor Data... at least this was the excuse, nevertheless, without ANYONE helping me, the manager had the audacity to push for me to deliver. The team seemed like they did not wanted to learn from me, or even talk. Instead of replying my extensive communication via meetings, emails, team chats, or jira, they just decided to ignore me. Even in person, when I talked about the topic (in Puerto Rico), they quickly changed the subject. This is how people try to sabotage smart engineers. The experience that I walked away with was: Puerto Ricans apparently hate AI because they have an inferiority complex due to colonial insularism that ONLY allows them to shake tits, ass, vagina and penis to the lame Bad Bunny music.The claim "There was no communication", was false and the PC can prove it. They wanted "education" yet no one asked nor talked. There was plenty of communication and information shared, they just ignored it. I was extremely underpaid for my role, so I would have been more underpaid in the case of providing education material to the site. They are still trying to find a replacement 3 months later and I guarantee it will be 1.5 - 3 times more expensive than me so the claim of cost reduction will blow up on their face. I assume someone with technical experience will look at the project and laugh, or cry, at the stupid decision of firing the subject matter expert that started this Industrial/Software/Data/ML/AI system after so many story points where invested. Keep this in mind when you read the bull shit of "work life balance" since it only applies to people that seduce others, not for actual engineers.In conclusion, if you have the chance of working on HPE... just don't. If you need to due to economic reasons, DO NOT LEAD PROJECTS NOR GO THE EXTRA MILE IF PUERTO RICANS, PRODUCT OWNERS FROM MASSACHUSETTS OR MANAGERS FROM INDIAN ARE INVOLVED.
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