ez·ra new·man
(noun)
/ˈezrə ˈnuːmən/
- An explorer, programmer, and human, esp. in the SF Bay Area or studying at Boston University.
- (of an employee) The next person you should hire.
“Have you seen Ezra’s resume?”
ré·su·mé
(noun)
/ˈrezəˌmā/
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education
Boston University—BA in Computer Science (in progress)
2021 - 2025 (expected). GPA: 3.98 Relevant coursework includes software engineering, combinatoric structures, formal logic, discrete math, engineering analysis and design; AP Computer Science (score: 5/5), AP Calculus (score: 5/5).
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experience
Data For Progress—Fullstack Software & Prompt Engineer
May 2022 - Present Automated several manual processes that otherwise took several hours of manual, thoughtless work from high-level employees. Used GPT-3 and 4 to automate editing and creation of surveys.
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experience
Nationball—Project Manager and Fullstack Engineer
April 2021 - February 2022. Developed and managed projects with multiple players using Python/Django, Postgres, HTML/CSS/Javascript, and production-ready web scraping.
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experience
Open Model Project—Website and Web App Developer
December 2020 - February 2021. Developed website and interactive poll explorer under extremely tight time pressure (unexpected runoff election). The tool required heavy optimization to run interactively at scale. Relevant skills: AWS Lambda/Serverless, Python, Optimization and Caching.
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Demo Project
Ross—Polling Made Easy
When a professor needed an easy way to ask agree/disagree questions, I whipped up Ross. Simply create a session, ask a question, and give your respondents a code. Uses Flutter and Firebase for a zero-cost always-online and infinitely scalable backend.
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skills
Technology
Full-stack development with a focus on back-end. Fluent in Python, Java and Kotlin development, experienced with Flutter/dart and OCaml, proficient with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
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activities
Explorer
Summer 2020: 28 day backpacking trip and wilderness training
Summer 2019: Exchange student in Chandigarh, India -
activities
Hobbies
Woodworking, Theater Lighting, Sailing, Skiing, Cooking, Travel
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get to know me
Gets Me Up In The Morning
Making new things, grappling with new ideas, and the rush from solving a hard problem.