# Jediah Katz

> Software Engineer, Building Cursor

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

I make software.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Cursor
Jan 2025 – Present
Building Cursor

### Senior Software Engineer @ Figma
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, NY
AI Infra team

### Software Engineer @ Figma
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York, NY
Prototyping team

### Lecturer @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Philadelphia, PA
Created and taught CIS 189: Solving Hard Problems in Practice (now CIS 1921). Content includes constraint programming, integer programming, SAT solving, and symbolic AI.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Dropbox
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York, NY / Remote
Shared Objects team

### Software Engineer Intern @ Shoreline.io (Acquired by NVIDIA)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Redwood City, CA
Distributed Language team at Series-A devops startup

### Software Engineer Intern @ Dropbox
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, CA
Developer Tools team (build infrastructure)

### CIS 320 Head Teaching Assistant @ University of Pennsylvania Engineering
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Philadelphia, PA
CIS 320: Algorithms
• Manage staff of 13 TAs and organize logistics for required course of 130+ students 
• Create weekly assignments and ensure perfection of course materials 
• Hold weekly office hours; grade homeworks and exams

### CIS 160 Teaching Assistant @ University of Pennsylvania Engineering
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Philadelphia, PA
CIS 160: Discrete Math
• Head of 20+ member homework committee and rubrics committee: lead weekly meetings for each committee, write and ensure perfection of course materials, and oversee fairness and consistency in grading for required course of 250+ students
• Teach weekly recitation of 20 students in topics such as combinatorics, probability, graph theory
• Hold weekly office hours; grade homeworks and exams

### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Redmond, WA
Machine learning insights for PlayFab within Xbox/Cloud Gaming

### Software Engineer Intern @ SportsRecruits
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Brooklyn, NY
• Built new tool using Flask & MongoDB to merge duplicate accounts in MySQL database with over 10m rows, achieving performance nearly 100x faster than previous merge tool
• Developed on existing SportsRecruits platform to expand company services into eSports market
• Reduced activity feed load time 10x by combining SQL queries and utilizing Laravel ORM


## Education
### Master of Science in Engineering (MSE) in Computer Science
University of Pennsylvania

### Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) in Computer Science
University of Pennsylvania

### Friends Seminary


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jediah-katz
- GitHub: https://github.com/jediahkatz

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Last updated: 2026-04-13