John Kerl
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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I like creating things that help you and me both self-actualize, that make us happier…
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John Kerl reposted thisJob!John Kerl reposted thisWe’re hiring an AI Emerging Risks Analyst on my team at OpenAI! This is a rare opportunity to work at the frontier of AI safety, risk and strategy: identifying weak signals, analyzing how misuse and harms may evolve, and helping turn that understanding into concrete mitigations across products, policy, and safety systems. You’d be joining an excellent multi-disciplinary team and working with the amazing Sam Brannen! The right person is someone who enjoys ambiguity, thinks adversarially and strategically, writes clearly, and wants their analysis to have practical impact. If that sounds like you, or someone you know, please take a look and apply! https://lnkd.in/gDY3fv7k
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John Kerl reposted thisJobs!John Kerl reposted thisExcited to announce I’m adding three measurement data science roles to my team at OpenAI! These DS (one each in San Francisco, New York, and London) will focus on measurement and analysis for the high severity harms my team covers. If you have experience measuring actor- and network-level harms (especially severe) and are excited to work on a cutting edge team I want to talk to you! (Link is for SF/NYC, London version in comments.)
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John Kerl shared thisRelease Miller 6.17.0: YAML and DCF file formats; performance improvements; bugfixes · johnkerl/millerRelease Miller 6.17.0: YAML and DCF file formats; performance improvements; bugfixes · johnkerl/miller
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John Kerl reposted thisJohn Kerl reposted thisA candidate’s resume showed: 4 companies in 5 years. Someone commented, “Unstable.” I still spoke to him. Turns out: One company shut down. One delayed salaries for months. One had a toxic manager he tried to tolerate for a year. He wasn’t switching jobs. He was protecting his sanity. Resumes show timelines. They don’t show survival. Before judging movement, ask for the story.
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John Kerl reposted thisJohn Kerl reposted thisWe're hiring (including early-ish career eng)! Come work with talented, kind, climate oriented folks :) https://lnkd.in/gZNprJa3
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John Kerl reposted thisJob! (With a team of real miscreants)John Kerl reposted thisI'm #hiring a contractor to join Meta's Dangerous Organizations & Individuals Policy team in Washington, DC! We're searching for an early career candidate for a one year contract (with the possibility of extension). This person will undertake detailed research and high quality drafting in support of Meta's efforts to review our existing DOI designations list. Additionally, the candidate will conduct basic investigations on Meta platforms to identify potential enforcement gaps. Strong candidates will have solid research and writing skills, and ideally some experience working on topics related to extremism. Please apply using this link: https://lnkd.in/eT_Uhf_2Research Analyst I - Washington, DC, United States | MetaResearch Analyst I - Washington, DC, United States | Meta
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John Kerl reposted thisJohn Kerl reposted thisHow TileDB and Snowflake Together Are Transforming Multimodal Research. Life sciences organizations struggle with fragmented multimodal data across systems. The TileDB-Snowflake Connected App addresses this by enabling seamless cross-platform access through zero-copy sharing and synchronized catalogs. The result: a foundation for the next generation of precision medicine and drug discovery, without the copies, governance gaps, or expensive bespoke infrastructure. https://hubs.la/Q03-JZJY0
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John Kerl reposted thisJohn Kerl reposted thisAccelerating collaboration and discovery with TileDB and Snowflake. Unprecedented performance across multimodal and tabular data, a simpler FAIR-compliant foundation, and AI across all your data—unlocking new possibilities for drug discovery, TREs, and precision medicine. From our recent Tech Talk on TileDB x Snowflake integration.
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John Kerl reposted thisJohn Kerl reposted thisDatadog = Best place to work Datadog has been named on Built In’s Best Places to Work lists across New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Colorado, and the U.S. Large Companies list. Let me assure you, the Amsterdam hub is right there at the top in terms of quality of life: 🕌 Design office 🌇 Large windows with lots of light and great views 🍱 Marvelous food 🏓 Ping pong and board games ⛱️ Open air patio ☕ Delicious coffee, snacks and drinks 🎧 Modern phone booths 🎩 Glass meeting rooms with the latest technology ...and more. Grateful to my colleagues who make Datadog such a supportive and inspiring place to grow. Explore life at Datadog → https://bit.ly/glbia26 🥁 I will be hiring soon, reach out to me! #DatadogLife
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John Kerl reacted on thisJohn Kerl reacted on thisBig day for our family. I finished my Clinical Pastoral Education at PennMed Princeton Medical Center. Chaplaincy work has changed me and I cannot express how grateful I am for my fellow chaplain interns Jamie O’Neal, Yami Fakinya, and Vasyl Remitskyi. Big shout out to our amazing supervisor Samuel Yenn-Batah
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John Kerl reacted on thisJohn Kerl reacted on thisLast week, I submitted my final assignment as an undergraduate student in the Honors College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University. On Sunday, May 10, I will receive my degree in Molecular Genetics with a minor in Music. In completing this milestone, I would like to reflect on some of my achievements and opportunities of this past year. I continued my internship in the Maternal Fetal Medicine Office of the The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, where my excitement for becoming a Genetic Counselor grew. I am especially thankful to Laura Montgomery, Alexandra Wallenhorst, and Allison Spitale for their mentorship. They have taught me an unmeasurable amount about working as a genetic counselor, and I am very grateful for their efforts. I completed my final tour as a University Ambassador, giving 64 tours to prospective Buckeyes and dignitaries over the past two years. This role strengthened my public speaking skills and connection to the Buckeye Community. Thank you to Eric Hildebrandt and the Undergraduate Admissions team for such a meaningful experience. It has been a pleasure “walking backwards” with you all. My involvement with the Ohio Union Activities Board (OUAB) has been a cornerstone of my college experience. This year, I served as a Co-Chair of Community Engagement, working to foster connection and inclusivity within our organization and across the University community. I was honored to receive the Spirit of OUAB award, recognizing the student who brings the most positivity and energy to the organization. My time in OUAB has been unforgettable, and I am grateful to have been a part of it. Thank you to Candace Floyd, Annie Maxwell, and Alex Wenglein for always supporting me, and thank you to OUAB for shaping me into a more confident and effective leader. I would also like to extend my gratitude to the amazing professors and faculty who supported and motivated me along my collegiate journey. Thank you Dr. Melissa Shivers, Dr. Danny Glassmann, Matt Couch, Ph.D., Jeff Pelletier, Rebecca Sallade, MPH, CHES, David Swearingen, Dr. Eric Danhart, Dr. Steve Chordas III, Dr. Greame Boone, Dr. Christopher Callam, Dr. Noel M. Paul, and Dr. Heithem El-Hodiri. You had and will continue to have an immense impact on me, and I am grateful for your dedication to this University and its students. Finally, thank you to my family, friends, and Buckeye Community for your constant support and encouragement. I am proud of how far I’ve come, and I can’t wait to see what’s next.
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John Kerl liked thisJohn Kerl liked thisI've spent 30 years in software engineering, and I'll say the shift happening right now is unlike anything I've witnessed in my career. I've been posting about AI-driven development for two years now — early adopter, true believer. And what's unfolding feels a lot like when we left assembly behind for higher-level languages. Nobody looked back. Yes, the layoffs are real. Productivity gains do that. But here's what I keep reminding myself, more jobs are coming, just different ones. Problems that were dead on arrival a few years ago — too expensive, too complex, no ROI — are suddenly solvable. Whole new categories of work are opening up. If you're a developer, learning to build with AI isn't optional anymore. It's the baseline, the data structures in 80s. #Claude #Cursor #Copilot #Gemini
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John Kerl reacted on thisJohn Kerl reacted on thisNew chapter: London is now home! After a quiet away I am ready to reconnect. Over the years I have attended and spoken at a wide range of events, and I am keen to get back into the community. If you are based in London, or passing through, I would love to meet for a coffee and a chat. And if you have recommendations for events or meetups worth attending, send them my way. Especially Space and AI related as that is now my main focus.
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John Kerl reacted on thisJohn Kerl reacted on thisEight glorious days out west: ✨Delivering a seminar lecture and guest teaching at University of Wyoming’s Dept of Anthropology (thank you, Lauren A. Hayes, Randy Haas, and all!) ✨Presenting at #IADR2026 in San Diego a poster co-authored with three Virginia Commonwealth University pre-dental undergraduate research assistants (hey, Victoria V. 👋🏼 hey, Hannah Clark 👋🏼 ) and — to my great surprise — being awarded Best Poster from the IADR Education Research Group ✨Seeing so many friends and colleagues (Aderonke Akinkugbe , Lisa J. Heaton, PhD , Eric Tranby , Tracy L. Finlayson , Cameron L. Randall , so many more!); making new friends (Laura Gartshore 👋🏼 Samantha Byrne see you in Australia! Mihaela Pantea see you in Romania!); waving across the room at too many folks I didn’t have the opportunity to chat with (Roger Keller Celeste , Prof Sarah R Baker , Barry Gibson ); celebrating the launch of IADR PRIDE ✨Keeping it fashionable despite the unseasonably warm weather 🤭 and ultimately returning home in time to celebrate Passover with family. This was one for the books and I can’t wait to do it again next year 🦷✊🏼❤️🔥 With gratitude for the support of VCU L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs , VCU Humanities Research Center , VCU Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation , VCU Office of Undergraduate Office & Creative Inquiry , VCU Work-Study, VCU UROP, and VCU McNair Fellows
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John Kerl reacted on thisJohn Kerl reacted on thisSoftware development in 2026 is so deeply broken. You can't move fast because everyone looks at the diff between what was there before and what's there after, and every change will look completely unreviewable from that perspective. It doesn't matter if you have built up a mental model in your brain and write it down, nobody will read what you write in the PR description anyways, people will just put the diff into Claude instead and complain about there being so many changes. Every major design improvement or rewrite is now indistinguishable from slop You can't move slow and intentional because everyone expects 10x the output, and if you don't deliver there will be consequences Eventually it gets so frustrating that you need to resist the urge to just copy and paste every PR comment into Claude and completely give up on pushing back on reviewer's change requests/personal preferences/defending your own changes Something has to change. This is not sustainable. I don't think anyone knows how to fix this yet.
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John Kerl reacted on thisWhen I started in this field 10 years ago, a place like Tech Coalition in existence would have felt like a fantasy. I first joined Online Safety at Facebook as a child safety investigator in Rita Fabi's and Karine Miller's team. We were deep in the casework related to content sextortion of minors, livestreaming, grooming, traveling sex offenders, NCII, but there wasn't much attention to it company wide, let alone industry wide. The trust and safety function was barely known internally outside of our direct partner teams. We didn't talk much about what our work actually was until years later. It felt daunting to explain my field even to my husband and my parents. Day to day, this work can feel thankless, bottomless, easily misunderstood, discouraging, and downright depressing. The days feel long and the years feel short. Now that I have the opportunity to consult at Tech Coalition it’s amazing to realize how much the scene has changed, how much more vocal and unified the industry is in combating online child sexual exploitation and abuses. How much more scrutiny there is from all sides (including internally) to hold companies accountable to child safety. There is always so much more to do, more to discuss, more to challenge the status quo, more and better fit solutions to figure out. When looking back where the industry is today compared to 10 years ago (not sure if there was even an online trust and safety industry at the time), it is a humbling reminder that this work is a marathon, not a sprint. Every inch counts. And every one willing to be part of the run makes a difference. Read where the industry is going and how it is working together to combat online child sexual abuses. It's a checkpoint, not a destination. And it's wonderful meeting other runners along the way.John Kerl reacted on this317 child safety improvements in one year. That’s the level of progress the tech industry is having in the collective fight against online child sexual abuse. In 2025, our 60 member companies strengthened how platforms prevent, detect, and respond to harm — across products, policies and operations. And it’s translating into outcomes—Lantern has now supported 350K+platform enforcement actions against accounts, URLs, and content. The threats are evolving fast. But so is the response. 🔗 Explore our 2025 transparency report, published today → https://lnkd.in/eiQPKrYr #Industrycollaboration #Trustandsafety
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University of Arizona
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Activities and Societies: Organized three weekly seminar series; served as graduate representative to the graduate committee; mentored an undergraduate research project; worked as teaching assistant, research assistant, and computing assistant. Courses taught include college algebra, trigonometry, and calculus. Maintained an active expository speaking schedule. (See http://johnkerl.org for more information.)
Dissertation: Critical behavior for the model of random spatial permutations. I utilized methods including Markov chain Monte Carlo, high-performance computing, statistics, and finite-size scaling to determine the critical temperature of phase transitions for a simplified model of the Bose gas. For more information, please see http://johnkerl.org/John_Kerl_research_statement.pdf.
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Miller: multipurpose data-manipulation tool
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See projectMiller is like sed, awk, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON http://johnkerl.org/miller/doc
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Spanish
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