Inspirational 2 years side-project with architects leading to a Python library

Disclaimer: NO AI bullshit here. We are in April 2024, I am working in Mexico City and a friend of mine contacts me. She is an architect and she works in Merida. Her and her colleague would like to have a solution to analyze architectural cadastral documents. She told me that she called friend for Mexico and USA and they all say it is impossible. Interested by the challenge I said: "Hold my beer" and I made a POC in 75h of intensive work. However, it was not enough. They had other requirements and getting to this was much more complicated. Complicated but still not impossible. As a Data Scientist, I started to develop a full solution (mostly Computer Vision) to read and analyze automatically specific cadastral documents. I decided to continue working on the project. Hours and hours. There was no money involved. Only challenge. Thanks to that I was able to do everything with the time I wanted. Putting all the passion in my side-project. With time the project grew and grew. But I was prepared for this. I made every part of the code separable, isolated. 6 repositories: aitt-core: core backend + Streamlit app -> Docker image deployment on ECR aitt-core-deploy: service deployment on the server via Ansible aitt-symbol-clf: ML + API -> Docker image deployment on ECR aitt-symbol-clf-deploy: service deployment on the server via Ansible 5 .aitt-infra: Terraform on AWS aitt-platform: Vue.js frontend (private repo) I finally came to a solution for what they needed in more than 625 hours of work. My work contract ended in 2025 in Mexico so I came back to France (I am French, yes I love pain - joke for bilingual). This project made me realized several things: I am capable of doing great things. We all are. The only thing that matters is discipline. This is not some sort of personal development bullshit. This is an advice for life. Einstein said: "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." Time is a powerful thing . With time and dedication you can achieve great t