Ben Mayer^XI

I like making computers go fast.

§1. Experience

Anthropic, Research Fellow (Contractor)Aug 2026 – Present

Sail Research, Technical Staff InternJun – Aug 2026

Created HTDYM, a tool for finding the most cost-efficient way to serve any LLM.
Optimized Gemma 4 31B prefill from 32% to 63% MFU on TPU v6e with custom Pallas kernels.

Paradigm, Research EngineerFeb 2022 – Aug 2025

Created Solmate, a library of optimized primitives for the Solidity programming language.
Helped companies like Uniswap, OpenSea and Blur architect & optimize their smart contracts.
And more: EIP-4626, VRGDAs, Crescendo, Flux, wikivec2text, Solcurity, 0xMonaco, RethMatch.

MIT, B.S. in Computer ScienceSep 2024 – Present²

^XII often go by the pseudonym Transmissions11, or t11s for short, online.

²As of Fall 2026, I am on a de facto leave of absence for the Anthropic Fellows Program.