ez·ra new·man

(noun)

/ˈezrə ˈnuːmən/


  1. An explorer, programmer, and human, esp. in the Boston area.
  2. (of an employee) The next person you should hire.

“Have you seen Ezra’s resume?”

ré·su·mé

(noun)

/ˈrezəˌmā/ (PDF)


  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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

  8. activities

    Woodworking, Sailing, Skiing, Cooking, Travel, Philosophy Politics and Economics Society Executive Board

  9. get to know me

    Gets Me Up In The Morning

    Making new things, seeing the world, and the rush from solving a hard problem.