Ben Mirtchouk
Software Engineer at The D. E. Shaw Group
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Mirtchouk is a software engineer with 10 years of experience currently on the Application Engineering team at The D. E. Shaw Group, bringing deep hands-on experience from Bloomberg where he modernized back-end calculation engines and led front-end redesigns for asynchronous, modular workflows. He holds a master’s in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology with a perfect GPA and has repeatedly supported CS courses there, reflecting both strong academic rigor and a talent for teaching. Ben is passionate about competitive programming and mathematics, and he focuses on large-scale software engineering, CI/tooling modernization, and system reliability. Notably, he has built benchmarking and diagnostic tools that enabled safe production changes and Linux migration efforts—demonstrating an ability to bridge experimentation, performance engineering, and production stability. Based in New York, he combines curiosity-driven learning with practical impact across backend, frontend, and infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, 4.00, Computer Science, 4.00 at Bergen County AcademiesMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.00, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.00 at Stevens Institute of Technology
Russian, English
Github Skills (24)
blitz5
variance5
messenger5
bioinformatics4
bioconda4
sequence4
api3
chat3
facebook-chat3
npm-package3
facebook3
nodejs3
depth-camera2
machine-learning2
image-processing2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BenMirtchouk/BenMirtchouk.github.io
Feb 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:213 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
AlexRubino/CS-555-Final-Project
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
This is the repository for all work done on the CS 555 final project.
Contributions:12 reviews, 19 PRs, 52 pushes in 2 months
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