ShippedProject
UD CIS Discord Bot
4,000+ students pull class schedules, calendars, and alerts inside Discord.
Node.jsMongoDBDiscord.jsGoogle OAuth
Ben Zlatin
I build fast, reliable software for real users.
Full-stack Engineer / Senior CS @ University of Delaware.
Shipped work at SciTec, UD CIS, and campus projects that classmates use daily.
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Selected work
Projects with shipped impact.
Each build listed here solved a problem for classmates, teams, or paying users.
2025 · In progressProject
StudyGuider
Turns 200-slide decks into notes, flashcards, and quizzes for faster studying.
Next.jsNestJSPrismaOpenAI
ShippedProject
StarterHelpi
Scrum Master of AI career quiz shipped in weekly increments by a 6-person team.
ReactTypeScriptOpenAI API
ShippedProject
FoodHunt
Friend groups agree on dinner in under 2 minutes with 50+ recs per session.
ReactExpressMongoDBYelp API
Experience
Roles and responsibility.
Software Engineer Intern
SciTec · Missile Defense
May–Aug 2025
- Parallelized intercept simulations and dropped runtime from 40 to 10 minutes.
- Shipped quick-look plots so analysts could review data right after a run.
Senior Design — IBM + Enterprise Neurosystem
University of Delaware
Sep 2025 – Present
- Building NLIP-compliant agent APIs and evaluation hooks for IBM research mentors.
- Bi-weekly sprints for a five-person team.
Software Developer
UD CIS Department
Feb–May 2025
- Maintained the CIS Discord bot serving 4,000+ students with Google OAuth and MongoDB.
- Launched course calendars and reminders so students don’t miss schedule changes.
Full Stack SWE Intern
EmberQA (RingFlare)
May 2022 – Aug 2023
- Delivered React/Electron tools used by 900+ facilities for audits and reporting.
- Rebuilt onboarding to cut client training from 3 weeks to 5 hours.
Tools
Stacks I work in daily.
Core stack
TypeScriptReact / Next.jsNode.js / NestJSPostgres / Prisma
Systems & performance
PythonC++ThreadingProfiling
AI & automation
OpenAI APIAgent workflowsPrompt toolingEval dashboards
Infra & delivery
DockerVercelRenderSupabase / Auth
Next role
Let’s talk.
I care about clear code reviews, quick turnarounds, and shipping software that holds up in production.