# Ben Schulman

> Engineering @ Silna

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/benschulman

## Work Experience
### Founding Software Engineer @ Silna
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ Dripos
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States

### Associate Software Engineer @ Capital One
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Computer Lab Assistant @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Madison, Wisconsin Area
Lab assistants act as undergraduate Teaching Assistants in the Department of Computer Science. I am a lab assistant for three sections of CS200, the introductory computer science course at University of Wisconsin-Madison. I teach students the fundamentals of computer science and have office hours where I can help my students in a more intimate setting.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Capital One
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | New York, United States
As an intern I worked in a pod with three other interns in the Commercial Tech branch of Capital One. As a pod, we:
• Designed a micro-service oriented architecture consisting of a Java back-end and Python (Django) micro-service for an internal testing tool.
• Designed the Python micro-service for API calls to various trade related functions of an internal trading tool.
• Automated deployment of the Python micro-service in its AWS EC2 instance through bash scripting.

### Summer Intern @ Sterling Partners Quantitative Investments
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
As a summer intern, I worked on four major projects during my time at SPQI:
• I studied Principal Component Analysis as applied to trend-following futures trading portfolios. Using Python, I developed research notebooks for SPQI to aid them in creating new trading strategies.
• I wrote hill climbing and genetic optimization algorithms in order to achieve optimal diversity in futures trading portfolios.
• I ported a trading results calculation program from C++ to Python.
• For Sterling Partners Equity Advisors, I studied Modern Portfolio Theory and wrote Monte Carlo simulations in order to find the efficient frontier for a given universe of stocks.

### Intern @ Sterling Partners
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Chicago Area
As an intern at Sterling, I mostly worked with data. I used my skills in programming (mostly python) to analyze and visualize certain types of data. I also wrote programs to automate certain repetitive and generally manual tasks.

### Intern @ PointDrive
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater Chicago Area
PointDrive is a sales tool, aiding professionals in delivering content in a professional manner to their customers. PointDrive has since been acquired by LinkedIn.

• Aided in production by testing the product for bugs.
• Helped debug and write unit tests for the product.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science, Mathematics and Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison

### Highland Park High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ben-schulman

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Last updated: 2026-03-20