Alex Flint
AI Fellow at Independent
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Flint is an AI Fellow and researcher with 15 years of experience building robotics, computer vision, and ML-powered developer tools, currently based in Berkeley. He co-founded on-road delivery startup Zippy (acquired by Cruise) and went on to ship core engineering at Cruise and Kite, where his team built an ML programming copilot. Earlier work at Flyby Media contributed vision technology that was later integrated into Apple’s ARKit, and his Oxford DPhil focused on SLAM and active vision. Alex blends hands-on systems engineering (Go/C APIs, editor plugins, and backend services) with research fluency and open-source contributions like go-arg and Gallium. He now explores AI safety and an experimental “Buddhism for AI” through a monastery-based fellowship, reflecting an unusual mix of contemplative practice and technical leadership. This combination makes him adept at translating deep research into robust, production-ready systems that consider long-term societal impacts.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MITDPhil, Engineering (Computer Vision), DPhil, Engineering (Computer Vision) at University of OxfordVisiting researcher, Computer Vision, Visiting researcher, Computer Vision at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Adelaide
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Github Skills (32)
sqlite10
python10
testing10
http10
capi10
go10
argument-parsing10
sublime-text-plugin10
reflection9
apim9
json9
datetime9
c119
desktop-application9
chromium9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
alexflint/go-arg
Oct 2015 - Oct 2022
Struct-based argument parsing in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 31 reviews, 301 commits in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex significantly contributed to the development of the `go-arg` library, focusing on implementing core functionality for parsing arguments. Their work included adding support for positional arguments, enabling multiple value arguments, and incorporating default value parsing. The user also focused on code organization by refactoring parts of the code. Finally, the user improved the library by adding tests for new functionality.
argument-parsinggogolang
alexflint/gallium
Sep 2016 - Oct 2018
Build desktop applications in Go and HTML.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:150 commits, 42 PRs, 70 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex focused on enhancing the C API, including making it more sophisticated. They also added the ability to create multiple windows from Go code. The commits show modifications to files within the `lib/vendor/brightray` and `lib/api` directories, suggesting they were involved in the application's core functionality, particularly in relation to Chromium integration.
desktop-applicationgochromiumdock-icondesktop-notifications
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