Eamon Niknafs
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEamon Niknafs is a Machine Learning Safety Engineer with nine years of experience building evaluations, benchmarks, and infrastructure to improve AI safety and content quality. He has applied adversarial security and ML engineering at Google, YouTube, and Mandiant before joining Apple’s Human-Centered AI research org to lead ML safety work. Eamon blends hands-on model safety efforts—covering content, recommendation, and adversarial robustness—with applied research, including plant classification for the Harvard Herbarium. Based in San Francisco, he pairs practical production experience with a curiosity for networks and tabletop role-playing games, a detail reflected in his hacker-minded GitHub presence. Collected experience across product-facing platforms and red-team security provides him a rare perspective on both offensive and defensive ML problems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Boston University
English, Persian
Github Skills (26)
ubuntu9
minecraft9
phishing8
discord-bot8
chroot8
discord-js8
discord7
enumeration7
penetration-testing7
security7
debian7
crouton7
pentesting7
chromeos7
threaded7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
v01dlight/public-tools
Feb 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:67 commits, 152 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
v01dlight/the-moth
Aug 2021 - Nov 2024
Official Discord bot of Satyrine's finest eatery... The Magniloquent Moth!
Contributions:3 reviews, 7 PRs, 30 pushes in 3 years 3 months
discord-jsdiscordbotdiscord-boteatery
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