Breck Baldwin
Founder at Safety 3rd
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBreck Baldwin is a founder, applied LLM/AI researcher, and system architect with over a decade of experience building reliable, production-grade AI across defense, medicine, finance, and entertainment. He specializes in making large language models predictable and testable—publishing on LLM determinism and inventing "Cyber Linguistics" to treat model I/O as structured interfaces rather than black boxes. A former PI on DARPA and NIH projects who built LingPipe (3,000+ citations) and led AI initiatives at Comcast, he combines deep academic credentials (PhD, prolific publications, two books) with hands-on product delivery. Breck runs a stealth startup focused on agentic evaluation and LLM behavior, and is known for pragmatic systems: modular, low-code, human-in-the-loop architectures that scale in messy real-world settings. An engaging collaborator and public-facing communicator (host of a local AI radio show), he brings both technical rigor and a knack for leaving organizations better than he found them.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Applied Linguistics, Bachelor's degree, Applied Linguistics at Hampshire CollegePhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (72)
bayesian-data-analysis10
bayesian-methods10
stan10
bayesian10
bayesian-statistics10
bayesian-inference9
jekyll-theme9
jekyll9
r-package9
mcmc8
eigen7
python7
rstan7
machine-learning7
eclipse6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
breckbaldwin/StanIsThePlan
Jun 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:51 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
breckbaldwin/orangealert
Jul 2022 - Feb 2024
Contributions:1 release, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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