Timeline

A chronological view of the journey so far.

2026

March 2026
project

Sentiment Analysis Demo

A proof-of-concept interactive demo showing keyword-based sentiment analysis embedded in MDX.

#demo#nlp#interactive
March 2026
essay

Machines of Loving Grace

A reflection on Dario Amodei's essay and what it means for those building AI systems.

#ai-safety#ethics#anthropic#alignment

2025

January 2025
milestone

Constitutional AI Deep Dive

Studied Anthropic's constitutional AI approach and RLHF alternatives for safer model training.

#alignment#anthropic

2024

September 2024
milestone

Interpretability Research Sprint

Explored mechanistic interpretability techniques — sparse autoencoders, circuit analysis, and activation patching.

#ai-safety#interpretability
June 2024
milestone

Deep Dive into AI Safety Research

Focused study of alignment techniques and interpretability methods.

#ai-safety
March 2024
milestone

AI Ethics Reading Group

Organized a cross-team reading group on AI ethics papers, from Bender & Gebru to Anthropic's core views.

#ethics
January 2024
milestone

Open Source Contributions

Started contributing to open-source AI tooling — building bridges between research and production.

#personal#open-source

2023

September 2023
milestone

First Production LLM Integration

Built production systems integrating large language models with traditional software engineering.

#llm#career
May 2023
milestone

The Anthropic Moment

Read 'Machines of Loving Grace' and realized alignment work is where engineering meets purpose.

#anthropic#philosophy
January 2023
milestone

Pivoting Toward AI

Made the deliberate career decision to focus entirely on AI engineering and safety research.

#career#about

2022

August 2022
milestone

Red-Teaming Workshop

Participated in adversarial testing workshops, learning to probe LLM vulnerabilities systematically.

#safety#red-teaming
March 2022
milestone

Engineering Foundation

Established core skills across distributed systems, web platforms, and data infrastructure.

#journey#foundation

2021

June 2021
milestone

Philosophy of Mind & AI

Explored connections between philosophy of mind, consciousness research, and artificial intelligence.

#philosophy
January 2021
milestone

First Encounter with Machine Learning

The combination of mathematical elegance and practical impact sparked a lasting fascination.

#personal#ml