Tristan Trim
Undergraduate Student
Sooke, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTristan Trim is an undergraduate researcher and software engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience, currently completing a BSc at the University of Victoria and focused on becoming a Technical AI Alignment researcher. His honours project, "Mechanistic Interpretability of Reinforcement Learning Agents," produced novel interpretability techniques and builds on leading work in the field, demonstrating both research rigor and practical tooling. Tristan has engineering experience across industry and research—ranging from integration engineering with AI collaborations at Linamar to industrial automation exposure at Michelin—and contributes to open-source projects such as optimizing terrain generation and performance in pycraft. Based in Sooke, BC, he blends systems-level optimization skills, hardware familiarity from early 3D printer projects, and a self-directed approach to study and networking in AI safety.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Electronic engineering technology, Electronic engineering technology at Nova Scotia Community College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
python10
pygame10
game-development10
algorithm9
code-optimization9
algorithms9
optimisation9
numerical-optimization9
optimization9
data-structures8
data-structure8
gpio6
django-models6
opengl6
pyinstaller6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
traverseda/pycraft
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
A fork of "Minecraft in 500 lines of python" intended to someday be used as a real engine, instead of as a learning example.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Tristan primarily focused on improving the functionality and performance of the game's terrain generation and rendering in the `pycraft/world.py` file. They addressed issues with block generation speed and lag, indicating optimization efforts. The user also refactored code, including indentation cleanup and optimizing the sector show/hide queue to improve performance. This suggests a focus on game engine optimization and stability.
minecraftpythonlines
TristanTrim/baye
Oct 2019 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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