Trevor Lohrbeer
AI Safety Research Engineer (Contract) at Redwood Research
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolTrevor Lohrbeer is an AI safety research engineer and seasoned full‑stack developer with over two decades of founding and scaling internet and software startups and 13 years of focused industry experience. Currently building research tooling at Redwood Research and co-founding community efforts at AI Safety Berlin, he designs extensible software that accelerates AI control and systemic safety experiments while conducting hands‑on validation studies. His background spans end-to-end product delivery—from Day Optimizer, a neuroscience-informed planning PWA he built solo, to data visualization and SSO migrations for enterprise clients—bringing a pragmatic, product-minded approach to research software. An active open-source contributor, he improved the widely used ImportJSON Google Sheets integration and maintains tools like Dataset Foundry and ControlArena to study agent vulnerabilities in code. Based in Berlin, he blends entrepreneurial instincts with research rigor, and outside tech is a dedicated vintage swing dancer working toward C1 German fluency.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Physics & Biology, Math, Physics & Biology, Math at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
English, German
Stackoverflow
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firebase-realtime-database
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Github Skills (15)
json-parser10
json10
jsonp10
google-apps-script10
api10
parsing10
apidoc10
text-parsing9
firebase-realtime-database9
google-cloud-firestore6
typescript6
google-cloud-functions6
cookie6
firebase6
applet6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bradjasper/ImportJSON
Nov 2012 - Sep 2014
Import JSON into Google Sheets, this library adds various ImportJSON functions to your spreadsheet
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Trevor primarily contributed to the `bradjasper/importjson` repository by developing and enhancing core functionality for importing JSON data into Google Sheets. Their work focused on creating functions such as `ImportJSON`, `ImportJSONViaPost` and `ImportJSONAdvanced`, adding features like handling POST requests and incorporating options to customize the import process. They fixed a bug related to handling nested arrays and refactored the code, improving the library's overall usability.
google-sheetsimportjsonparsingcryptocurrenciesjson
crunchybananas/ember-async
Apr 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 release, 1 push, 1 branch in 10 months
ember-addonhandlingemberhelpersasync
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