Steven Bursztyn
Vice President at The D. E. Shaw Group
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolSteven Bursztyn is a vice president and software engineer with eight years of experience building production systems at The D. E. Shaw Group after rising through software developer and intern roles. A rising senior at the University of Pennsylvania studying Computer Science with minors in Mathematics and Cognitive Science, he blends rigorous algorithmic training with practical systems engineering. He has taught and led large-scale course operations as head TA for CIS 121, managing 30 TAs and the course infrastructure for 250+ students, demonstrating strong technical mentorship and operational leadership. Early internships at Google on YouTube and Adblocking teams show experience in high-scale consumer and advertising systems. Comfortable across research-adjacent academics and finance-grade engineering, he brings both teaching pedigree and hands-on production delivery to complex software challenges. Based in the New York City area, he pairs academic honors with a track record of progressing into senior technical leadership at a top quantitative firm.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Scheck Hillel Community SchoolBachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.), Computer and Information Science (CSCI) minors in Mathematics and Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.), Computer and Information Science (CSCI) minors in Mathematics and Cognitive Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, Spanish, Hebrew
Github Skills (28)
distributed-computing9
user-authentication9
user-management9
boilerplate8
flask8
python8
authentication8
dask8
sqlalchemy8
pydata8
redis7
scheduler7
distributed-lock7
task-scheduler6
database6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
stevenbursztyn/2015-project-starter-code
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
stevenbursztyn/distributed
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
A distributed task scheduler for Dask
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
schedulerdaskdistributed-systemsdistributed-locktask-scheduler
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