Buck Shlegeris
Chief Executive Officer at Redwood Research
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBuck Shlegeris is an experienced AI safety leader and engineer with 13 years building distributed systems and research organizations from San Francisco. He co-founded and now leads Redwood Research, transitioning from CTO to CEO while previously contributing research at MIRI and hands-on engineering at PayPal and Triplebyte. His background spans production-scale Scala systems, databases and distributed architectures, as well as teaching and curriculum development in Python, Haskell, and web stacks. Known for bridging rigorous safety research with practical engineering, he brings uncommon experience moving between deep technical tutoring, applied research, and executive strategy.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National University
Stackoverflow
517reputation
39kreached
4answers
19questions
Github Skills (128)
declarative10
javascript10
typescript10
user-interface10
frontend10
react10
ecosystem9
golang9
docker9
inspect8
guice8
nteract8
hydrogen8
ios8
react-native8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
bshlgrs/wireworld_editor
Nov 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 29 days
bshlgrs/bshlgrs.github.io
Jan 2015 - Jul 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 129 pushes, 2 comments in 6 years 8 months
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