Cyrus FreshmanProvidence, RIcyrus@(freshman.dev)
WORK EXPERIENCE
Wayfinder Collective LLCRemote
Agentic Coder May 2026–Present
Part of a 4-person dev team building a new all-in-one sales operations platform
FRESHMAN.DEVProvidence, RI
Owner / Software Engineer April 2022–Present
Accepted into startup incubator RIHub. Various projects, for example: - logcal.app: a social diary! - wordle bot leaderboard: main global leaderboard for Wordle solvers, 300+ submissions - wordbase: remake of discontinued word game - yxorp.app: reverse proxy for personal sites on home wifi - p057.co (Post Co): simple upload tool - sheet.social: flat org tool - input notes, output LLM whatever
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 pursue own work
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)
Makerspace Specialist 2024
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 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