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Sentient Futures Fellow | Software Engineer & AI Researcher | IIT Dhanbad EE ’26 | CF Expert (1642)

About

I am an Electrical Engineering grad from IIT Dhanbad ('26) who genuinely loves solving hard problems. To me, competitive programming is pure fun. There is nothing quite like the rush of grinding through tricky algorithmic puzzles, which is how I reached Codeforces Expert (1642) and LeetCode Knight (1875). I approach software engineering with that exact same endurance, a mindset I originally built from years of running marathons and swimming at the state level. I write code because I love turning ideas into products people actually interact with. Recently, I shipped a Chrome extension for Brainstellar puzzle-solvers that grew to 40+ active users, and I built a full-stack gamified productivity platform called Grind IRL. I also enjoy taking on deep technical research, like engineering a patent-pending quantum-classical RL optimizer for EV charging. Right now, I am completely hooked on AI safety. After placing 3rd at a global hackathon in London and co-authoring a paper on LLM deception, I am stepping into a new role as an AI Safety Fellow at Sentient Futures. During this program, I will be testing how model alignment holds up under adversarial fine-tuning. Outside of core ML and backend work, I am super intrigued by live streaming and real-time media. Building live-data infrastructure or working on the engineering side of platforms like Twitch would be a dream. Ultimately, I want to work at the frontier of tech alongside other high-agency builders. I am currently open to full-time SWE, AI/ML, or Quant roles in talent-dense environments where I can tackle complex systems from first principles.

Location

India

AI stack

antigravity

claude code

claude

codex

elevenlabs

gemini

Work experience

AI Safety Fellow at Sentient Futures, Aug 2026 - Present · 2 mos, Selected as a Fellow at Sentient Futures, researching training-time interventions and evaluating alignment robustness under adversarial pressure.

Hackathon Judge at Apart Research, Jan 2026 - Jan 2026 · 1 mo, Remote, • Evaluated 7 AI safety research submissions for the Global AI Manipulation Hackathon across rubrics for rigor and info-hazards.

Software Engineer at Zetheta Algorithms, Apr 2025 - Jun 2025 · 3 mos, Remote, • Built an interview-prep pipeline generating difficulty-tiered questions from candidate resumes via OpenAI APIs.

AI Safety Research Fellow / Lab Member at Apart Research, Jun 2024 - Dec 2024 · 7 mos, London, England, United Kingdom, • Analyzed 15,000+ data points across 1,200 LLM completions to isolate metadata signatures of instructed deception. • Co-authored write-up published on LessWrong and AI Alignment Forum.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad

Public links

github: https://github.com/itsbsiddharth

leetcode: https://leetcode.com/besiddharth1

codeforces: https://codeforces.com/profile/itsbsiddharth

bsid.dev: https://bsid.dev/