Dan Braun
Member Of Technical Staff at Goodfire
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Braun is a Member of Technical Staff and AI researcher with nine years' experience focused on interpretability, security, and making large ML systems more understandable and controllable. He has held research and engineering roles at Conjecture, Apollo Research (as Lead Engineer and Security Lead), and Goodfire, and previously built data-efficient, explainable models at NukkAI using Bridge as a testbed. His background blends rigorous computer science and advanced mathematics from the University of Sydney and Wollongong with practical products—earlier founding work produced profitable predictive sports models. A former professional card player who represented Australia in Bridge, he brings a strategic, game-theoretic perspective to AI safety and model behavior analysis.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyBachelor of Mathematics Advanced, Bachelor of Mathematics Advanced at University of Wollongong
Github Skills (17)
language-model10
gpt8
visualizations8
lms7
react7
partial7
api5
machine-learning5
converting5
pytorch5
bayesian4
openai3
python2
json2
apollo2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
goodfire-ai/param-decomp
Jul 2025 - Nov 2025
Parameter Decomposition
Contributions:169 reviews, 41 PRs, 164 pushes in 4 months
simple-stories/simple_stories_train
Jul 2024 - Oct 2025
Trains small LMs. Designed for training on SimpleStories
Contributions:31 reviews, 12 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 2 months
lms
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