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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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activities
Hobbies
Board games, Woodworking, Philosophy Politics and Economics Society Executive Board, 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.