CurrentlyPost-training @ xAI
Based InSan Francisco
EducationMIT, Class of 2022
BrettAllen
Experience2021 — Present
xAI
June 2025 — Present
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x.ai/news/grok-business ↗
Member of Technical Staff/Post-training & Enterprise
  • Created and led Grok Business / Grok Enterprise product 0 → 1
  • Led technical and product development of all enterprise features: billing, sharing, auth, single-tenant deployments + dozens more
  • Created enablement materials, drove customer onboarding, ensured deal closure, and designed the feedback flywheel
  • Now building reinforcement learning actors and models for certain tasks
Watershed
Apr 2023 — May 2025
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Software Engineer/Finance Product & Enterprise Platform
  • Founding member of the enterprise platform team and IC on finance product (the startup within the startup)
  • Spearheaded strategic organizational structure product and designed core enterprise features
  • Stepped in as interim PM and designer to lead Beta rollouts, sales calls, customer interactions, and major product surfaces
  • Architected data comparison tool + audit log while managing critical escalations and scaling product engineering efforts
Palantir
Summer 2021, 2022
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Software Engineer/Geotime
  • Advanced Geotime ecosystem for real-time mission tracking with live streams of large-scale spatiotemporal data
  • Developed sophisticated CBAC-based authorization controls for nested Gotham artifacts
  • Enhanced backend infrastructure with automated processes and significantly improved test suite capabilities
Meta FAIR
Spring 2021
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github.com/facebookresearch/mmf ↗
Research Engineer/Multimodal
  • Built the multimodal team's first end-to-end inference pipeline for running and testing models on image and text inputs
  • Designed and implemented inference config-as-code, adding support for dozens of models and preprocessors
  • Built and trained multiple models using Faster R-CNN region feature extractors
Writing
Coming soon
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Don't build what customers ask for
Reading
Currently Reading
Utopia — MoreFiction
Dune — HerbertFiction
The Skeptic Way: Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of Pyrrhonism — EmpiricusAnthropology
Favorites
The Wager — GrannNon-fiction
Siddhartha — HesseFiction
The Secret of Our Success — HenrichAnthropology
When Breath Becomes Air — KalanithiNon-fiction
Sapiens — HarariAnthropology
Shoe Dog — KnightNon-fiction
Prisoners of Geography — MarshallAnthropology
The Lean Startup — RiesProfessional
The Design of Everyday Things — NormanProfessional
The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding — SchwarzeneggerHealth
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