Asya Bergal
Associate Program Officer
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAsya Bergal is an Associate Program Officer in Cambridge with 12 years of technical and research experience bridging computer science and effective philanthropy. Trained as a computer scientist at MIT, she transitioned from systems and security-focused engineering roles (from Dropbox and MemSQL to Coq-based protocol proofs at MIT) into research and grant evaluation on AI robustness and governance. At Coefficient Giving and Open Philanthropy she assesses high-impact grants, drawing on hands-on technical fluency to evaluate complex AI and safety proposals. Her background includes building performance-critical software, prototyping autonomy and vision systems, and formal verification work—an uncommon combination that strengthens her grant analysis. Deeply engaged with the Effective Altruism community, she seeks roles that translate technical insight into outsized global good.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyNondegree while in high school Computer Science, Nondegree while in high school Computer Science at University of Iowa
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
dialog9
conversation9
chatbot8
python8
chat8
bots8
crypto7
machine-learning7
chatterbot7
nlp7
alchemyapi6
tcpdump6
timestamp6
readable6
tcp6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
andres-erbsen/chatterbox
Sep 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:99 commits, 2 pushes, 1 issue in 4 months
chatbotthingychat
asya-bergal/led-matrix-server
Apr 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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