Ryan Greenblatt
Member Of Technical Staff at Redwood Research
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Greenblatt is a Member of Technical Staff at Redwood Research with 11 years of software engineering experience focused on technical AI safety research and low-level systems work. He brings a strong C++ and systems background from internships in quantitative trading, robotics, and embedded tooling, and has contributed to the Zig programming language’s build system and core logic—highlighting comfort with compiler/toolchain-level problems. Known for improving performance and testability, he has accelerated ROS pipelines with OpenCL, reduced compile times in large codebases, and built CI workflows across platforms. Based in Berkeley, he combines hands-on implementation of safety-critical algorithms with practical tooling and integration expertise, often surfacing subtle bugs in core libraries and runtime paths.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Applied Mathematics, High School Diploma, Applied Mathematics at North Carolina School of Science and MathematicsBachelor of Science - BS, Applied Mathematics-Computer Science, Freshman, Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Mathematics-Computer Science, Freshman at Brown University
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Github Skills (13)
compiler10
build-system10
compiler-compiler10
zig10
programming-language9
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
raytracing6
cuda6
optix6
ptx6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
ziglang/zig
Jan 2021 - Jun 2021
Moved to Codeberg
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:65 reviews, 6 commits, 8 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the build system and core logic of the Zig programming language. Their work involved implementing features related to build options, including the integration of write file arguments. They also fixed bugs within the standard library, such as issues with readable slices in FIFO implementations and unspecified format problems. Furthermore, the user addressed potential issues within the panic handling of the language.
purposecompilertoolchainzigprogramming-language
rgreenblatt/ai_alignment_readings
Sep 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:164 commits, 134 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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