About

Jeff Kaufman is a senior software engineer, biosecurity researcher, and prolific technical blogger. After a long career at Google, he now leads the Nucleic Acid Observatory project at the biosecurity organization SecureBio.

He and his wife, Julia Wise, are well-known longtime practitioners of Effective Altruism, donating 50% of their household income to high-impact charities—a commitment that has been featured in major international media including The Washington Post and The New York Times.

On his personal website jefftk.com, he publishes frequent notes and essays exploring software engineering architecture, biosecurity defense, data analysis, rationalist philosophy, and personal experiments.