Daniel Phillips
Independent AI Safety Researcher
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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SeniorDaniel Phillips is an independent AI safety researcher and MATS fellow based in Sydney with 14 years of engineering experience spanning fintech, logistics, and startups. He moved from hands-on software engineering roles at Vesparum Capital and Premonition/Shippit into performance research at Optiver before pivoting to funded independent safety work in collaboration with teams at Redwood Research and Anthropic. Daniel combines low-latency systems and performance optimisation expertise with emerging AI alignment techniques, bringing a practitioner’s view to theoretical safety problems. His background in production systems and trading infrastructure gives him a practical edge in evaluating real-world failure modes and control challenges for advanced models.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (33)
protocol-buffers10
serialization10
protoc10
rpc10
protobuf10
marshalling9
python-development9
pip9
python8
virtualenv8
packaging8
doobie8
pipfile8
discord-js7
discord-bot7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DpEpsilon/COrg
Oct 2015 - Jan 2025
Contributions:6 pushes in 9 years 4 months
DpEpsilon/doobie-codegen
Jul 2016 - Mar 2021
Generate Doobie database code from sql statements.
Contributions:1 release, 57 pushes, 34 branches in 4 years 8 months
doobiesql-statementssqlstatementsdatabase
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