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: 3.96

    Relevant CS Coursework: Artificial General Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Compiler Implementation and Design, Formal Methods, Streaming Systems, Distributed Systems, 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. education

    BlueDot—Technical AI Safety • AGI Strategy

    January 2026 - Present

    Topics included safety techniques, threat modeling, open technical problems, governance strategy, policy interventions, kill chain analysis, and defense-in-depth.

  3. prizes

    AI Math Olympiad Progress Prize—Bronze Medalist

    Developed a novel resource-allocation strategy for LLM inference, training a difficulty-prediction classifier to optimize compute usage across a dataset of mathematical problems.

  4. prizes

    Phi Beta Kappa

  5. prizes

    Dean’s List, Boston University

  6. experience

    SPAR—Research Fellow

    February 2025 - Present

    Working with Daniel Tan on recontextualization; and with Santi Aranguri to develop evaluation techniques and mitigations for reward hacking in LLMs.

  7. experience

    American Civics Exchange—Software Engineer

    June 2025 - January 2025

    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.

  8. experience

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

    January 2024 - September 2024

    Developed complex, performance critical from-scratch stream processing system to support novel research experiments in Go. Teaching assistant for Distributed Systems.

  9. experience

    Data For Progress—Fullstack Software Engineer

    May 2022 - January 2024

    Built robust Python LLM pipelines to automate survey generation. Designed validation framework and benchmarks to prevent hallucinations in public-facing datasets. Built systems that automated 650 hours per year of researcher time.

  10. experience

    Sharp Square Capital—Project Manager and Fullstack Engineer

    December 2020 - February 2022

    Developed multiple interactive data visualization and manipulation dashboards. Optimized product to run interactively at scale, achieving 400x speedup.

  11. 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

    Practiced in writing performance-critical systems to run at scale

    Proficient with AWS and GCP

  12. activities

    Constitution/Model Spec reading group organizer, Philosophy Politics and Economics Society Executive Board, Woodworking, Skiing, Cooking, Travel

  13. get to know me

    Gets Me Up In The Morning

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