Cyrus FreshmanProvidence, RIcyrus@(freshman.dev)
WORK EXPERIENCE
FRESHMAN.DEV LLCProvidence, RI
Owner / Software Engineer April 2022–Present
Accepted into startup incubator RIHub. Various projects, for example: - logcal.app: a social diary! - wordbase: remake of discontinued word game, support for 5 user-requested languages - wordle bot leaderboard: main global leaderboard for Wordle solvers, 300+ submissions - p057.co (Post Co): simple upload tool - sheet.social: flat org tool - input notes, output LLM whatever
TrilogyAustin, TX (Remote)
AI Fellow April 2025–June 2025
Part of an experimental team building a collection of AI-enabled educational software Conceived of and built GradeWiki, grade-level views of Wikipedia Ideological mismatch (they support private education over public) and quickly left company
Meadowbrook Day CampWeston, MA
Makerspace Specialist Summer 2024
Amazon RoboticsPath Planning TeamWestborough, MA
Software Engineer September 2019–April 2022
Developed new path planning algorithm and API for autonomous warehouse vehicles (demo) Optimized tier-1 data pipeline ecosystem to improve scaling of accessor API by 1500% Designed internal alarming library used across adjacent teams Simplified management of client throttling system and collaborated on new self-service workflow Earned the highest performance category each year and left after 2.5 years to start own company
MathWorksData Tools & Graphics TeamsNatick, MA
Software Engineering Intern Summers 2016–2018
Developed full-stack feature for MATLAB Online’s Import Tool Implemented several UI elements for MATLAB’s Property Inspector, including colormap (detail) Created performance test/report to track progress on MATLAB Online graphics optimization
EDUCATION
University of Massachusetts, AmherstAmherst, MA
3.91
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science September 2015–May 2019
589 Machine Learning – 514 Data Science – 583 Game Programming – 383 Artificial Intelligence 403 Robotics – 326 Web Programming – 611 Advanced Algorithms – MATH MVCalc LinAlg DiffEq
Semester Abroad at The University of Auckland Spring 2018
Earned 8.25/8.0 semester GPA 473 Computer Graphics – 451 Database Systems – 445 Human-Computer Interaction
OTHER PROJECTS & ROLES
Gauntlet AI 2025
Intensive expenses-paid 12-week AI training program (link) Placed me into Trilogy
3D Game Development in Unity 2019
Designed rally-car couch game with Nintendo Joy-Cons for player input (link)
Team Lead, Competitive Programming Interest Group 2017
Qualified at BOSPRE Preliminary as first-time ICPC competitor (scores) Achieved 6th place of 17 in the 2017 Northeast North America (eg MIT) Regional Contest (scores)
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES, STACKS, TECHNOLOGIES & METHODOLOGIES
Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, C/C++, Kotlin, Ruby, C#, MATLAB, HTML/CSS MERN stack (MongoDB, ExpressJS, ReactJS, NodeJS), SQL, Redis Chrome DevTools, Git, Unix shell, AWS, REST APIs, Service-Oriented Architecture, Agile