Summary
Jaren Mendelsohn is a software engineer based in New York with 12 years of experience building high-performance systems across finance and hardware-focused teams. Currently at D. E. Shaw working on futures, he previously reinforced Citadel’s equity risk engineering stack after internships in quantitative research and at Apple’s touch hardware group. His background includes designing low-latency time-series visualization and real-time anomaly detection pipelines using Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Spark, and practical experience modernizing storage and distributed compute to cut rendering from minutes to under a second. Comfortable across backend, data, and systems engineering, he also brings experience teaching full-stack development and embedded programming, which helps him translate complex technical ideas clearly. A UC Berkeley CS student with a track record in demanding, production-critical environments, Jaren pairs rigorous engineering with an eye for performance optimizations that materially improve system behavior.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley