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Oliver Habryka

Director of Strategy
Berkeley, California
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habryka@berkeley.edu
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Born in Germany I have been working on a large range of projects ranging from organizing international conferences to fractal art to running a webdesign company to sometimes being a student at UC-Berkeley.
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Work Experience

Radical Dreamers

Co-Founder
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Jun 2012 - Feb 2015

Radical-Dreamers started out as a webdesign company, then became a webhosting company, and then became a server and support technology company. At the end we had running service contracts in all three of those domains that significantly helped in covering my tuition fees.

IT Schule Stuttgart

Support Teacher
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Aug 2012 - Aug 2014

For two years I was teaching a class on rationality, forecasting and decision making at the IT-Schule Stuttgart. I was acting practically as an addition to the teaching staff of the school and my workload was about a third to half of the normal workload for other teachers at the school.

Effective Altruism Outreach

Director of Strategy
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Jun 2015 - Current

Since summer 2015 I have been working with Effective Altruism Outreach on various projects, including Effective Altruism Global in 2015.

Education

University of Stuttgart

Bachelor (incomplete) Mathematics
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Aug 2012 - Aug 2014

I studied pure mathematics for two years at the university of stuttgart (of a three year degree). I then aborted the degree and started studying at the University of Berkeley. By the end I had the official qualification of about 1.5 years of the degree, but didn't take the exams at the end of the second year.

UC Berkeley

Bachelor Mathematics & Computer Science
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Sep 2014 - Current

I am studying Mathematics & Computer Science at UC Berkeley. At this point I have fulfilled most of the requirements to graduate but to not have enough credit, since my european college credit did not transfer.

Projects

Logistics Manager for the SPARC summer program

Intern
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Jun 2013 - Sep 2014

I was logistics manager for the SPARC summer program, organized by the Center for Applied Rationality and UC-Berkeley.

Leverage Research: Effective Altruism Summit 2014

Intern
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Jun 2014 - Sep 2014

I interned at Leverage Research helping to organize and coordinate the Effective Altruism Summit 2014.

HPMOR Wrap Parties

Organizer
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Jan 2015 - Mar 2015

In early 2015 I organized wrap parties (party as the last chapter of the book was released) for the popular Harry Potter fanfiction "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". Over 300 people attended in UC-Berkeley, and over 1000 people world wide.

Rationality Workshop Series in Europe

Project Organizer
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Oct 2013 - Jun 2014

Over the course of 2013 and 2014 I organized multiple workshops in Europe on rationality and decision making. This included workshops in Berlin and Vienna.