Ben Zhao
Software Engineer at NYU
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Zhao is a software engineer based in the New York City metro area with nine years of experience and a strong early-career focus on applied AI and GenAI. He has interned across major tech and finance firms—including Meta, Scale AI, Verizon, and BNY Pershing—and currently works on AI agent prompts at Zingage, bringing practical LLM red‑teaming and reasoning experience. Comfortable across front-end and AI workflows, he contributed to a Docsify-based static site for a high-profile repository, handling integration, plugins, and encoding troubleshooting. A former Penn State CS teaching assistant, Ben pairs hands-on coding with a curiosity for learning and a competitive streak evident in sports and occasional poker.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Penn State UniversityRadnor Senior High School
manderin, German
Github Skills (5)
html10
git10
javascript10
docsify10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
sikaozhe1997/Xin-Yue
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
岳昕：致北大师生与北大外国语学院的一封公开信
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 9 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 days
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on building a static website using Docsify to display the content of the repository. Their work included initializing the webpage structure, including setting up the basic HTML framework, integrating Docsify and related plugins like Gitalk and pagination. Furthermore, the user added a title, repo information and collaborator. They have also troubleshooted issues like encoding.
zhaobenx/zhaobenx.github.io
Jun 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
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