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BEN ZHOU

UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO COMPUTER ENGINEERING

I built and designed this website without any previously built components using Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind!

Feel free to contact me at ben.zhou@uwaterloo.ca or on LinkedIn!

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ABOUT ME

Hey — I'm Ben, a first‑year Computer Engineering student at the University of Waterloo. I love turning ideas into practical software and hardware that make everyday life a little easier.

I work mostly in TypeScript, JavaScript, C++, and Python, and I've shipped full‑stack projects with frameworks like Next.js and Flask. Hackathons have taught me to build, break, and ship fast — skills I bring to every project.

PCB Design Project

The inside of a macroboard I completely designed and built

  1. Grand Charter Logo
    Sep 2025

    Incoming Software Engineering Intern

    Grand Charter - New York, United States

    • Incoming for Fall 2025

  2. Fuego.io Logo
    Jan 2025 - Apr 2025

    Software Engineering Intern

    Fuego.io - San Francisco, California

    • Optimized core AI generation features by developing custom architecture, accelerating response times to be 17.7x faster (15.4s → 0.87s avg), reducing token usage and slashing costs by similar margins

  3. WAT.ai Logo
    May 2025 - Present

    Software Developer

    WAT.ai - AI Sentiment Pulse - Waterloo, Ontario

    • Created a webscraper using Python to extract and score 100+ articles on Yahoo News for overall sentiments

  4. Midnight Sun Logo
    Sep 2024 - Present

    Firmware Team Member

    Midnight Sun - Waterloo, Ontario

    • Developing ping testing functions in Python and C to verify connectivity across CAN networks

  5. Averroes Technologies Logo
    Jul 2024 - Aug 2024

    Prototype Engineering Intern

    Averroes Technologies - Toronto, Ontario

    • Developed 12 firmware prototypes in C++ for iterative product validation

  6. SAP Logo
    Feb 2024 - Jul 2024

    Software Developer Co-op Student

    SAP - Toronto, Ontario

    • Created a worker to handle and sanitize GPT-4o requests using TypeScript reducing request errors by 23%

  7. Eureka Hacks Logo
    Nov 2023 - May 2024

    FullStack Developer Lead

    EurekaHacks 2024 - Oakville, Ontario

    • Improved page load times by 160%, and reduced LCP, leading to 3,800+ impressions and 1,100+ clicks

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