Alex Mckenzie
AI Alignment Researcher at AE Studio
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAlex Mckenzie is an AI alignment researcher and data scientist based in Berlin with a decade of experience building scalable ML systems and safety-focused AI. He currently leads AI safety research at AE Studio, following a track record of leadership at LASR Labs where he headed a 4-person team and helped publish one of the Outstanding Papers at ICML 2025’s Actionable Interpretability workshop. He combines hands-on engineering with rigorous research, having previously built real-time ML infrastructure for fraud detection at SumUp and led ML platform initiatives as a Senior Data Scientist. His work bridges mathematics, philosophy, and AI, underpinned by a MMathPhil from Oxford and a MS in CS from Georgia Tech, giving him a strong theoretical and practical foundation for alignment work. He has a proven ability to drive security-minded practices, from SumUp's Security Champion role to developing evaluation tools and automation in multidisciplinary teams. Based in Berlin, he pursues safe, verifiable AI that scales in real-world applications.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MMathPhil, Mathematics and Philosophy, First Class (Double), MMathPhil, Mathematics and Philosophy, First Class (Double) at University of OxfordMaster's degree, Computer Science, 3.9 GPA, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.9 GPA at Georgia Institute of Technology
French, German, English
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Github Skills (41)
fastapi10
docker10
neural-search10
multimodal10
generative10
screeps10
generative-ai10
pipeline10
jaeger10
opentelemetry10
grpc10
adversarial-attacks9
kubernetes9
semantic-search9
machine-learning9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Arrrlex/alexwebsite
Jul 2016 - Feb 2020
Contributions:59 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 3 years 6 months
Arrrlex/bdqm-hyperparam-tuning
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:143 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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