Evan Murphy
Technical Researcher On AI Standards Development at SightReadingMastery
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolEvan Murphy is a technical researcher and software engineer with 15 years of experience at the intersection of front-end engineering and AI safety standards development. Based in Vancouver, he currently drives AI risk-management and standards work at the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative while serving as a non-resident research fellow at the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity and a board member of AIGS Canada. He brings production engineering chops from Google and several lead front-end roles, plus entrepreneurial experience as founder and lead engineer of SightReadingMastery. An active open-source contributor, Evan enhanced interactive examples for the well-known Bacon.js functional reactive library, improving usability and live previews. He combines pragmatic product-focused development with deepening expertise in AI governance—an unusual blend that helps translate technical detail into practical, standards-ready guidance.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Intro to ML Safety course by Center for AI SafetyAI Safety Fundamentals course by Blue Dot ImpactB.S. Computer Engineering, B.S. Computer Engineering at University of PittsburghInternational Student Computer Engineering Music, International Student Computer Engineering Music at Universidad de Guadalajara
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (15)
html10
javascript10
functional-reactive-programming10
jquery9
dom9
underscorejs7
underscore7
dry6
url-routing6
jsonp6
devise6
routes6
backbonejs6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
baconjs/bacon.js
Oct 2013 - Sep 2014
Functional reactive programming library for TypeScript and JavaScript
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to the examples section of the Bacon.js functional reactive programming library. Their work focused on adding and refining interactive examples, including an echo example, a "Batter up" take/skip example, and a combination lock example. They refactored existing examples to improve consistency and leveraged the `assign` function for cleaner code. In addition, they updated the examples page to include a live preview link.
functional-reactive-programmingjavascripttypescript
evanrmurphy/lava-script
Feb 2011 - Aug 2014
Contributions:80 commits in 3 years 6 months
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