Luca De Leo

Product engineer at 80,000 Hours.

Passport:: Argentina.
Location:: London.
Available:: Open to advising and hackathons outside work.

luca@80000hours.org · lvca.dev · linkedin · @lvcadeleo

Skills

Engineer:: Full-stack. Ship in TypeScript, Python, Rust, Swift. Build and migrate production apps with coding agents.
Field-building:: Founded Argentina's AI safety hub. Facilitated BlueDot's AGI Strategy and Technical AI Safety courses.
Operations:: Ran Nonlinear's grantmaking network — 50+ funders, 500+ applications, $800K+ disbursed.
AI tooling:: Claude Code, Cursor, agent SDKs. Built tooling for AI agents (gdoc, claude-runner, auto-gsd).
Interests:: Rationalism, effective altruism, AI alignment.

Experience

Product Engineer, Career Services · 80,000 Hours

May 2026 — present

Product and engineering on the career services team, in London.

Cofounding Director · BAISH (Buenos Aires AI Safety Hub)

Aug 2024 — 2026

Founded and directed Argentina's first AI safety hub. Handed off when I moved to London.

Grew the community to 400+ members; 6 have moved into full-time AI safety roles and 28 into fellowships and research programs.
Mentored 10 participants through research projects with concrete career roadmaps.
Designed and built baish.com.ar.

Founding Engineer · Alignment Journal

2026

A publishing venue for alignment research. Six weeks; built the platform they still run on.

Creator · ASTN

2025 — present

AI safety's career platform. One profile, smart recommendations, automatic recruiter matching.

Course Facilitator · BlueDot Impact

2025 — Mar 2026

Facilitated cohort discussions for the AGI Strategy and Technical AI Safety courses, training entrepreneurs, operators, and engineers to build AI safety interventions.

Background Researcher & Operations · AI Species

2023 — Feb 2026

AI safety documentaries. 20M+ views. Research, fact-checking, ops, content strategy.

Operations Associate · Nonlinear

May 2023 — Apr 2024

Built management system for the Nonlinear Network: 50+ funders, 500+ grant requests evaluated, $800K+ channeled.
Stood up the Nonlinear Emergency Fund for FTX-affected grantees — another $800K disbursed in three days.
Accounting, compliance, finance ops.

Prize & Platform Development Intern · Nonlinear

Sep 2022 — May 2023

Sole full-stack developer for the Super-Linear platform. Designed prize structures with orgs and AI experts. Automated claims system.

Research & Hackathons

Four Paths to Failure — 1st place, Apart Research, Jun 2025.
Red-teamed ASI governance frameworks, identified circumvention routes, proposed policy amendments. Parlayed into a month-long governance fellowship.
RobustCBRN Eval — 2nd place, Apart Research, Sep 2025.
Practical benchmark robustification toolkit for CBRN safety evals — consensus detection and statistical analysis.
Tabletop Agents — Apart Research, Nov 2025.
Multi-agent framework compressing AI governance wargames from years to minutes.

Education

Computer Science (AI focus) · University of Buenos Aires

2016 — 2023

Grant · Long-Term Future Fund

2022 — 2023

One-year stipend for self-directed study in AI alignment. Contributed to alignment.dev and stampy.ai. First place at Apart Research × Epoch AI Trends hackathon.

Grant · ACX Grants (Astral Codex Ten)

2022

Funded to self-study AI safety.

Languages

English (fluent) · Spanish (native) · Portuguese (limited)