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Hi, I'm Yifan Mai.

I'm a software engineer from Singapore, currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area. I use any/all pronouns.

I am currently looking for new job opportunities. I'm particularly interested in the areas of sustainability, climate change, and AI safety, and in organizations that work on open source software, research and policy. I am open to positions in the San Francisco Bay Area and remote positions. If you are interested in hiring me, please reach out through LinkedIn.

I previously worked at Stanford Center for Research in Foundation Models (CRFM), where I maintained the open-source Holistic Evaluation of Language Models (HELM) project. Our research provided a framework for benchmarking foundation models that helped researchers, developers and users better understand of the capabilities, limitations and risks of these models.

I have over a decade of professional experience in software engineering, including full-stack web development, cloud infrastructure, machine learning infrastructure, and distributed data processing. I previously worked at Coursera, where I was a founding engineer, and at Google, where I worked on TensorFlow.

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