Hi! I'm Jeremy Kintana.

I believe the world is a better place when we're serious about the things that matter. To me, that means immersing myself in work worth doing, spending time with the people I love, and dancing like nobody's watching! I'm currently working as a generalist at Kairos, a nonprofit focused on accelerating talent into AI safety. Previously, I directed the Wisconsin AI Safety Initiative, interned as a software engineer at an 11-person startup, and co-founded my university's LeetCode Club.

Here's some other things I'm up to:

• Writing short blog posts, like this one on perfectionism and this one on grief
• Reading whatever I feel like (which usually means lots of sci-fi)
• Hosting (and attending!) good parties
• Enjoying my last semester of college before I graduate in May

Here's something cool: I have a 6-0 hackathon record! (And I wrote about my process here.)

1. Capitol Hill Advanced AI Expo, Demo Presenter
   We built a tool that showcases two dangerous AI voice capabilities: 911 dispatch line flooding and congressional call automation. Our proposal made it through to the final round of competition, and we flew out to Washington, D.C. to present our project to congressional staffers!


2. NASA SpaceApps Chicago 2024, Global Honorable Mention & Local Best Presentation
   We built an interactive 3D star map to see what the night sky and constellations look like from different exoplanets. We ended up being a Global Honorable Mention, meaning we were in the top 70 out of 15,444 teams, at the world's largest global hackathon!


3. Hack Midwest 2024, Pinata Enterprise Challenge Winner
   We built a mobile app that puts names and emotions to faces. Definitely our most technically-involved solution: the team slept for 1 hour in a 24 hour period.


4. NASA SpaceApps Chicago 2023, Global Nominee & Local Best Presentation
   We built a space sonification webapp, transforming star data into sounds using computer vision. Lots of data wrangling for this one.


5. MadHacks 2023, 1st Place
   We built a visual accessibility Chrome extension. We were a team of three and we won four 55" TVs. We lived in the dorms freshman year, so we had no idea where to put them!


6. MVHacks 4.5, Best Beginner Hack
   We built a club meeting aggregator website for our high school. Mostly flailing around with HTML and CSS, but we learned a lot!