ez·ra new·man
(noun)
/ˈezrə ˈnuːmən/
- An explorer, programmer, and human, esp. in the Boston area.
- (of an employee) The next person you should hire.
“Have you seen Ezra’s resume?”
ré·su·mé
(noun)
/ˈrezəˌmā/ (PDF)
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education
Boston University—BA in Computer Science • BA in Philosophy
September 2021 - May 2025.
GPA: 3.98
Relevant CS Coursework: Artificial General Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Streaming Systems, Distributed Systems, Combinatoric Structures, Formal Logic, Discrete Math, Engineering Analysis and Design.
Relevant Philosophy Coursework: Philosophy of Value, 20th Century Ethical Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Ancient Ethical Philosophy, Phenomenology, Kant.
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experience
American Civics Exchange— Software Engineer
June 2025 - Present
Developed full stack software for early stage prediction market startup utilizing both AI agents and hands on programming. Took broad independent responsibility while collaborating with a fast-paced team to develop business critical features.
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experience
Boston University—Research Assistant for the Complex Analytics & Scalable Processing Lab
January 2024 - September 2024
Developed complex, performance critical from-scratch stream processing system to support novel research experiments in Go. High performance targets required diving deep into various Go language internals and concurrency primitives.
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experience
Boston University—Teaching Assistant for Distributed Systems
January 2024 - May 2024
Created new assignments, taught labs and office hours, and developed exam questions. Topics included analyzing and debugging distributed systems, distributed consensus, and fault tolerance.
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experience
Data For Progress—Fullstack Software & Prompt Engineer
May 2022 - January 2024
Developed automated processes for implementing public opinion surveys for a national political strategy organization. Used large language models to automate editing and creating surveys, and to provide feedback to human analysts, automating 650 hours of employee time per year.
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experience
Sharp Square Capital—Project Manager and Fullstack Engineer
December 2020 - February 2022
Developed and managed multiple interactive tools using Lambda, Python, Postgres, and HTML/CSS/Javascript. Optimized product to run interactively at scale, achieving 400x speedup.
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skills
Fluent communicator skilled at explaining complex technical and philosophical concepts
Experienced in deploying LLMs as autonomous agents both for decision-making and workflow automation
Fluent in Python, Go, Java, and Kotlin development
Proficient with OCaml and Flutter/Dart
Practiced in writing performance-critical systems to run at scale
Proficient with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Skilled in full-stack development with a focus on back-end
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activities
Woodworking, Sailing, Skiing, Cooking, Travel, Philosophy Politics and Economics Society Executive Board
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get to know me
Gets Me Up In The Morning
Making new things, seeing the world, and the rush from solving a hard problem.