Engineering Computer Science
Resume:
David A Benjamin
Present Address Permanent Address
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Brookline, MA 02446 West Lafayette, IN 47906
Skills
Experienced with C++, C, Python, JavaScript, Java, OCaml, Scheme, SQL, Git revision control, Django, Linux
usage and administration. Familiar with Perl, x86 assembly.
Education
August 2008 May 2013 (expected)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering awarded May 2012. Pursuing Master of Engineering.
Courses include 6.033 Computer Systems Engineering, 6.035 Computer Language Engineering, 6.828 Operating
System Engineering, 6.837 Computer Graphics, and 6.858 Computer Systems Security. GPA: 5.0/5.0.
August 2005 May 2008
Purdue University
Regularly attended undergraduate and graduate-level computer science courses at Purdue during high school.
Courses included Algorithms, Data Structures, Operating Systems, Computer Graphics, Cryptography.
Experience
Open Source
Adopted nspluginwrapper, a two-year-abandoned open source project to proxy NPAPI browser plugins for cross-
architecture loading. Fixed race conditions and consolidated distribution forks. Contributed to nacl-mounts, a
library for emulating POSIX lesystem on Native Client. Also contributed heavily to hterm, JavaScript terminal
emulator used in Google Chrome OS.
June 2012 August 2012
Jane Street Capital
Software Intern. Implemented client for reliable multicast protocol over UDP. Improved hash table performance
and explored e ects of OCaml runtime and garbage collection on latency-sensitive applications.
June 2011 August 2011
VMware
Interned with Development Infrastructure group. Wrote tool to manage internal toolchain. Brought git expertise,
evaluated repository management systems, wrote git support for internal services, assisted in deployment.
June 2010 August 2010
Interned with Google Chrome. Improved SSL/TLS client authentication and key generation. Added UI feedback
for certi cate enrollment, refactored frontend. Fixed miscellaneous bugs.
Ksplice, Inc. (now acquired by Oracle) October 2009 February 2010
Interned at startup. Wrote web site and backend logging system for customer-facing service usage tracking tool.
November 2009 present
MIT Student Information Processing Board
Member of SIPB, MIT s volunteer student computing group, in Fall 2009 for work on BarnOwl IM client in Perl
and C, now a lead developer. Contributions include ncurses-based windowing toolkit. Started Webathena, an
experiment to bring Kerberos to the web with a JavaScript client and cross-origin service ticket delegation.
June 2009 August 2009
Akamai Technologies
Interned with Network Management Systems. Integrated con guration validation platform with logging system.
Awards and Publications
Member of MIT team to ACM-ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest, 2009
Published paper, Private and Uncheatable Outsourcing of Algebraic Computations, with local Purdue professor
in conference Privacy, Security and Trust 2008
Gold medalist in International Olympiad in Informatics 2008, eighth place worldwide, two-time USA team mem-
ber, 2008 USA Computing Olympiad National Co-Champion
USA Mathematical Olympiad Winner 2008, Team Selection Test invitee, three-time training camp invitee
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