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

    2021 - 2025. GPA: 3.98 Relevant coursework includes Artificial General Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Streaming Systems, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Combinatoric Structures, Formal Logic, Discrete Math, Engineering Analysis and Design, Philosophy of Value.

  2. experience

    Boston University—Research Assistant for the Complex Analytics & Scalable Processing Lab

    January 2025 - September 2025. Developed a complex and 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.

  3. experience

    Boston University—Teaching Assistant for Distributed Systems

    January 2024 - May 2024. Created new assignments and taught labs and office hours that regularly attracted more than forty students. Topics included analysing and debugging distributed systems, distributed consensus, and fault tolerance.

  4. experience

    Data For Progress—Fullstack Software & Prompt Engineer

    May 2022 - January 2024. Developed automated processes for implementation of public opinion surveys. Used large language models to automate editing and creation of surveys and to provide feedback to human analysts and automate rote question editing, automating 650 hours of employee time per year.

  5. experience

    Sharp Square Capital—Project Manager and Fullstack Engineer

    December 2020 - February 2022. Independent responsibility for all aspects of development and managing multiple interactive websites for speculative projects using AWS Lambda, Python/Django, Postgres, and HTML/CSS/Javascript. The resulting tools required heavy optimization to run interactively at scale. Implemented production-ready web scraping and consumed live news APIs to track current events.

  6. skills

    Technology

    Experienced deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) as autonomous agents both for decision-making and workflow automation.

    Fluent in Go, Python, Java, and Kotlin development. Proficient with Flutter/Dart and OCaml.

    Experience writing performance-critical systems to run at scale.

  7. activities

    Hobbies

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

  8. 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.