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November 18, 2012

Ben Kuhn

*****@*******.*******.*** http://benkuhn.net/

Education

Harvard University Cambridge, MA

Honors A.B. in Mathematics and M.S. in Computer Science expected, May 2015. GPA: 3.9.

Commonwealth School Boston, MA

Class of 2011. Commonwealth does not rank or disclose grade point averages; transcript available on request. Quali ed

for American Invitational Math Exam 2009, 2011. National Merit Scholar. National AP Scholar.

Skills

Programming Languages: Most pro cient in Python, Co eeScript, Javascript, Objective-C, Java, and Action-

Script. Other languages include C/C++, Haskell, HTML5/CSS, L TEX, Lua, MySQL, OCaml, and PHP.

Software/Libraries: Linux, Emacs, Git, Mercurial, Mathematica; Django, node.js, MongoDB, jQuery.

Other: Strong writing and editing. Fourteen years classical piano, voice, music theory, and composition.

Experience

Harvard Class Cambridge, MA June 2012 present

Co-created, with Billy Janitsch, a browser for Harvard University s course catalog. Harvard Class launched to

rave reviews from students; in its rst semester it gained 1300 registered users, and was featured in the Harvard

Crimson and BostInno. http://harvard-class.com/

Wrote server (PHP/MySQL), course data processor (Python/SQLAlchemy), and frontend architecture (Co ee-

Script/jQuery). Co-designed and programmed user interface.

Intern, Fog Creek Software New York, NY June August 2012

Worked on Trello, a collaborative task management tool, on the server (Co eeScript/node.js/MongoDB), iOS

app (Objective-C/Cocoa), and web frontend (Co eeScript/Backbone.js/socket.io). http://trello.com/

Pushed the iOS app to a new version as the only employee working full-time on the project. Added push

noti cations and made signi cant performance improvements, including reducing disk I/O by 90%. The new

version is currently rated 4.5, and according to one reviewer, is the [m]ost responsive app I have.

Research Assistant, Aiden Lab Cambridge, MA September 2011 May 2012

Worked on the Seaweed project, a platform for easily and cheaply creating experiments in behavioral economics

Final course project (CS50) Cambridge, MA December 2011

Co-designed an online collaborative game development studio. Implemented backend server in Python and

Django and frontend and game engine with Javascript and JQuery. http://www.gimblium.com/

Developer, Note ight LLC Cambridge, MA June August 2010, 2011

Designed and implemented an improved Javascript API for the Note ight Flash application.

Improved rendering and playback and added ability to synchronize score with a video.

Prototyped a port of the Note ight rendering engine to Javascript/HTML5. Owned all client-side code.

Added support for following along in the score with embedded YouTube videos. Provided the basis for an

award-winning Boston Music Hack Day demo.

Independent project Boston, MA March 2011

Created a search engine for musical melodies, including e cient key-independent fuzzy matching, using my own

adaptation of the BLAST protein-matching algorithm. http://moogle.benkuhn.net:8080/

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