Kyle O'brien
Founding Member Of The Technical Staff at Geodesic Research
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolKyle O'brien is a research-focused software engineer with 8 years of experience who now leads pretraining safety research as a founding member of the technical staff at Geodesic Research and as a Research Manager at ERA Cambridge. He specializes in LLM safety, particularly Capability Prevention & Removal (CPR)—developing scalable methods to prevent and unlearn dangerous capabilities like biorisk from model weights and pretraining corpora. His Deep Ignorance work on filtering pretraining data for tamper-resistant safeguards has been published and covered in mainstream outlets, reflecting both technical rigor and public impact. Prior roles at EleutherAI and Microsoft gave him deep production experience building resilient distributed systems and moderation models that serve millions, plus hands-on engineering of high-availability microservices and authentication platforms. He combines fast-feedback empirical research with production-grade engineering practices and mentoring, and uniquely bridges open-weight model research with practical deployment safety.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree (Transfer) Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree (Transfer) Computer Science at Santa Rosa Junior CollegeUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (2)
security3
firewall3
Github contributions (1)
ingochris/social-engineer-firewall
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:14 commits in 1 day
securityfirewalldeployedtreehacks
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