Celia Waggoner
Technical Program Manager at AI Safety Engineering Taskforce
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolCelia Waggoner is a Technical Program Manager based in San Francisco with 10 years of experience bridging software engineering and program delivery, especially in AI safety and large-scale evaluation programs. She has led cross-functional teams and scaled engineering organizations—from managing squads of up to 18 engineers at Trove to coordinating 40+ technical contributors for a government-constrained AISI evaluation bounty. Celia combines hands-on technical support with program-level planning, having built milestone-driven frameworks that decomposed 30+ deliverables and kept time-sensitive initiatives on track. Her work spans building production-quality LLM evaluations and maintaining the Inspect Evals open-source repo, reflecting both engineering rigor and governance-minded thinking. Comfortable in fast-moving research-to-production contexts, she brings a track record of improving developer efficiency, quality practices, and stakeholder alignment under tight timelines.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Intensive Machine Learning Program, Intensive Machine Learning Program at Deep AtlasComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hackbright AcademyComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Reactor PrepBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Metropolitan Studies, Social Entrepreneurship, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Metropolitan Studies, Social Entrepreneurship at New York University
Github Skills (28)
ai10
poller10
large-language-models9
serializer8
localstorage7
nodejs6
java6
api-client6
php5
terraform5
dotnet5
python5
elixir5
javascript5
docker5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
godaddy/split-node-serializer
Dec 2019 - Sep 2021
Fetches split definitions and segments from Split.io and serializes them into strings
Contributions:107 PRs, 120 pushes, 106 branches in 1 year 9 months
poller-cachesplitexperimentationstringssegments
godaddy/split-javascript-data-loader
Dec 2019 - Sep 2021
Script to load serialized rule/segment data from Split.io into browser local storage
Contributions:1 review, 74 PRs, 80 pushes in 1 year 9 months
localstoragesplit-data-serializerserializersplitsegments
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