Aaron Bergman

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Resume

Education

Georgetown College, Georgetown University Washington, D.C. · Dec 2021
Majors in Economics and Mathematics; Minor in Philosophy
  • Departmental Honors in Economics and Mathematics. GPA: 3.89; cum laude
  • Co-founder, co-president, and fellowship facilitator of Georgetown Effective Altruism
  • Member and competitor on Georgetown University Club Rock Climbing Team

Work Experience

Innovate Animal Ag Remote · Mar 2026–Present
Technical consultant and researcher (Contract)
  • AI implementation contractor building discovery infrastructure for a nonprofit that identifies technologies to improve farmed animal welfare
  • Paper discovery pipeline: OpenAlex API → cheap LLM triage (xAI batch) → validation → full-text acquisition → promisingness evaluation (Claude, Anthropic Batch API)
  • Acquired full text for ~21K+ papers across free OA sources, paid APIs, Semantic Scholar, web scraping, browser automation, university library proxies, and Upwork sub-contractors
  • Created unified semantic search system (345K documents) with OpenAI embeddings, Pinecone, and FastAPI with interactive embedding visualization
Arb Research Remote · Jan–Mar 2026
Technical consultant and AI engineer
  • Creating LLMs that write ("sound") like humans via fine-tuning, scaffolding, and other techniques
TranscribeWell Jun 2025–Jan 2026
Founder (Early stage exploratory startup)
  • Building an advanced transcription service combining SOTA accuracy with speaker diarization
  • Hybrid pipeline using OpenAI Whisper API, Pyannote diarization, and LLM semantic inference
80,000 Hours Remote · Mar–Jul 2025
Marketing Contractor
  • Built an LLM-based pipeline to discover and assess thousands of YouTube channels for marketing partnerships
  • Created and analyzed survey data from target audience members
Freelance Data Scientist & Software Engineer Mar 2024–Jan 2026
  • AWS Bedrock RAG solution for government grants chatbot
  • Technical pipeline to convert visual documents into audio using multimodal LLMs
  • RAG systems for resource curation at Frostwork Media
Arch Arlington, VA · Nov 2023–Feb 2024
Operations Associate
  • Analyzed investor clients' unstructured documents
Long Term Future Fund Bethesda, MD · May 2022–Nov 2023
Grantee; Independent Researcher
  • Published research on total utilitarianism and moral offsetting
  • Developed the "EA Archive" to preserve digital resources
  • Published articles on EA Forum and LessWrong
Nonlinear Remote · Jan–Apr 2022
Research Intern
  • Prepared recommendations based on The Lean Marketplace to create an EA "idea market"
FDIC — Center for Financial Research Washington, D.C. · Summer–Winter 2021
Economist Student Trainee
  • Cleaned and analyzed data in R to support senior economist's research
DOI — Office of Policy Analysis Washington, D.C. · Summer–Fall 2021
Economic Policy Intern
  • Summarized federal renewable energy rulemakings; analyzed demographics of DOI-managed land visitors
Additional Experience 2017–2021
  • American University, Economics Research Assistant (2020–2021)
  • SpiderSmart Learning Centers, Mathematics Instructor (Summer 2019)
  • Good Food Institute, Corporate Engagement Intern (Summer 2018)
  • Earth Treks Climbing Gyms, Instructor & Volunteer Assistant Coach (2017–2018)

Media & Community