Resume
Technical consultant specializing in adversarial data collection and AI implementation.
Experience
Independent Technical Consultant, confidential client (specifics under NDA)
- Large-scale collection of hard-to-acquire data, plus the pipelines and internal tools around it
- Recurring AI-generated analysis of live data, LLM evals, and helping non-technical staff use AI
Freelance Data Scientist & Software Engineer
- Innovate Animal Ag (2026): searches ~350M academic papers, scored by calibrated Claude agents
- Arb Research (2026): fine-tuning and scaffolding research toward more humanlike LLM prose
- Eleos AI (2025): discourse analysis of the AI-welfare conversation, audio versions of papers
- 80,000 Hours (2025): LLM pipeline to find and rate hundreds of YouTube channels for sponsorships
- Fintech client: sanctions screening with LLM-assisted match review. RAG systems for two other clients
TranscribeWell, Founder
- Transcription service with speaker diarization and LLM cleanup. Paused before launch
Independent Researcher, Long-Term Future Fund grantee
- Population-ethics research on the EA Forum. Built the EA Archive
Earlier
- Arch (operations, 2023-24), Nonlinear (research intern, 2022), FDIC (economist trainee, 2021), US Dept. of the Interior (policy intern, 2021), American University (economics RA, 2020-21)
- SpiderSmart Learning Centers (mathematics instructor, 2019), Good Food Institute (corporate engagement intern, 2018), Earth Treks Climbing Gyms (instructor and volunteer assistant coach, 2017-18)
Selected Projects
- RP Research Atlas: semantic search over Rethink Priorities' research and everything it links to. Live but preliminary
- EA Forum Archive: full scrape and semantic search of the EA Forum (23k posts, 166k comments)
- AI-narration podcasts: Bentham's Bulldog, Slow Boring, The Argument, EAG Talks. The pipelines rework figures, page numbers, and citations so extracted text is pleasant to hear
- Monitoring agents: Claude Code routines that diff anthropic.com, openai.com, and x.ai daily, unattended for months (openai_monitor). Caught a staging-login leak
- Measurement: benchmark tracker (600+ models), AI-text prevalence in the top 1,000 Substacks
- Fish Welfare Initiative challenge: predicted pond oxygen from satellite data better than chance
- Volunteer animal-welfare sites: stopbigpork.org, herbivorize.org
- Working with agents: 270 Claude Code projects and 1,200 sessions in four months. Trained a local EA group leader on Claude Code (fee waived)
Research and Writing
- “Utilitarians Should Accept That Some Suffering Cannot Be Offset”, winner of the Essays on Longtermism competition
- Blog and Pigeon Hour podcast: 67 posts and 32 episodes since 2020
- Guest on 80k After Hours, Narratives, and Consistently Candid
Education
Georgetown University
BA in Economics and Mathematics, Philosophy minor
- GPA 3.89, cum laude, departmental honors. Co-founded and co-led Georgetown Effective Altruism
Community
- Maintained up-to-date US Congressional Records and Twitter Community Notes dataset
- Founder of The Mile Climb (rock climbing fundraiser), raising $20,000+ for charity (2014-2018)
- Eagle Scout (2017)