Aaron G. Bergman

Founder

Early Stage Exploratory Startup

June 2025–Present

Building an advanced transcription service that combines SOTA accuracy with speaker diarization
Developing hybrid pipeline using OpenAI Whisper API, Pyannote diarization, and LLM semantic inference

Washington DC-Baltimore Area (Remote)

Marketing Contractor

March 2025–Present

Spearheaded an initiative to identify and evaluate promising YouTube channels for marketing partnerships
Built an automation and LLM-based pipeline to discover and assess thousands of potential YouTube channels
Created and analyzed survey data from members of target audience
Creatively and successfully navigated and managed technical bottlenecks such as restrictive API quotas and local compute constraints

March 2024–Present

Built and maintain the only up-to-date public collection of US Congressional Records since 2017, automating daily updates and overcoming restrictive API rate limits
Implemented AWS Bedrock RAG solution for government grants chatbot, architecting AWS knowledge bases for grants.gov content and XML data processing with Nova-micro LLM
Developing machine learning models for Fish Welfare Initiative's Innovation Challenge, using weather data, lagged weather patterns, and satellite imagery to predict dissolved oxygen levels in aquaculture farms
Created and analyzed a comprehensive public dataset of X (Twitter) Community Notes
Designed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for resource curation at Frostwork Media
Conducted data-driven research projects including:
- Building and analyzing a large-scale poly-topic panel dataset
- Investigating macronutrient-obesity relationships using statistical methods (analysis thread here)
Engineered a technical pipeline to convert highly visual documents into audio using multimodal LLMs, including Weighing Animal Welfare and Edge of Sentience

Arlington, VA

Operations Associate

November 2023–February 2024

Analyzed investor clients' unstructured documents to identify and document specific pieces of information

Bethesda, MD

Grantee; Independent Researcher

May 2022–November 2023

Published research on total utilitarianism and moral offsetting (full post)
Developed file collection system for the "EA Archive" to preserve digital resources
Published articles on EA Forum (profile) and LessWrong (profile)
Analyzed EA Forum usage data and tags to support site moderation

Washington, D.C. (remote)

Research Intern

January–April 2022

Prepared recommendations based on The Lean Marketplace to create an EA "idea market"
Evaluated internship applicants' resumes and writing samples

Washington, D.C.

FDIC Center for Financial Research, Economist Student Trainee | Summer–Winter 2021
- Cleaned and analyzed data in R to support senior economist's research
- Prepared reports on topics related to federal bank regulation
DOI Office of Policy Analysis, Economic Policy Intern | Summer–Fall 2021
- Summarized federal renewable energy rulemakings
- Analyzed demographics of visitors to DOI-managed lands

2017–2021

AARON G. BERGMAN