Ethan Sterling

Computer Science and Economics @ Northwestern University

About#

Hi, I’m Ethan, a Computer Science and Economics student at Northwestern University. I enjoy designing efficient solutions to complex problems and exploring technologies related to low-level programming, such as kernel development, performance optimization, and programming languages.

Education#

Northwestern University#

Seeking Honors in Economics | Dean’s List | Innovation Fellowship | Accelerated Math Program

Master of Science in Computer Science
Bachelor of Arts in Economics
Minor in Data Science

Coursework:

Kernel and Other Low-level Software Development, Operating Systems, Networking, Computer System Security, Data Structures, AI, Linear Algebra, Multivariable Calculus, Mechanism Design, Econometrics, Computer Systems, Game Design & Development, Data Science & Machine Learning, Programming Languages, Discrete Math, Agent-Based Models, Data Visualization, Agile Software Development, Automata theory and compilers
Current: Foundations of Quantum Computing and Quantum Information

Experience#

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago#

Software Engineering Intern

Implement automated multi-region disaster recovery using AWS services (EC2, RDS, Route 53) and Terraform for a test application, enabling scheduled and intelligent failover based on resource availability
Engineer an automatic update process for OSS in an Angular/Spring application, including automated site testing
Create a proof-of-concept for unit testing PostgreSQL procedures, functions, and triggers using a test application
Architected critical RESTful APIs using Spring Boot to replace database links, aiding cloud migration effort
Leveraged Docker, Terraform, Mockito unit tests, and built GitLab CI/CD pipelines for deployment and scalability
Maintained FedLine Solutions, securing payment services for 100,000 users, moving 5 trillion dollars daily

The Buoyancy Project (FPVM)#

Research Contributor

Design and implement a Just-in-Time (JIT) compiler to translate custom Floating-point Intermediate Representation (FIR) into native x86-64 assembly, achieving near-native execution speeds
Enhance VM instruction set with x86 comparison, precisely manipulating EFLAGS for complex conditional logic
Define architectural roadmap for high-performance computing by prototyping 256-bit AVX vector instruction support, detailing kernel state, register file, and compilation pipeline changes

Prescience Lab (DMPL)#

Research Assistant

Scaled functional programming language MaPLe to a distributed memory environment using MPI and C
Developed efficient parallel garbage collection for MPL, scaling to hundreds of cores and 1TB+ heap sizes
Optimized whole-program compilation with MLton for performance competitive with C/C++

Fulminare Holdings#

Software Engineering Intern

Wrote programs in Swift for data imports from other apps to improve user transitions to poker bankroll tracker
Marketed app by creating and maintaining a Twitter bot to post daily threads resulting in an increase of over 8000 app users
Conducted market research on fitness apps to help inform and provide feedback for new app development

Skills#

Programming languages: Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, SQL, STATA, Swift, C#, R, Assembly, LISP, LaTex
Software and technologies: Git, Unix shell, GDB, Valgrind, Docker, Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, AWS, PostgreSQL, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Jupyter, Spring Boot, Jenkins, Terraform, Mockito, GitLab, Vim, React, Angular, Hibernate, H2

Skills I’m learning this year:

tmux, LLVM

Projects#

Check out some of my highlighted projects!

Other Repositories#

Explore more of my projects on my GitHub.

Connect With Me#

If you would like to get in touch, feel free to reach out. I will get back to you as soon as possible.

Email: iethansterling@gmail.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ethan-sterling-2004
GitHub: github.com/EthanSterling04
Resume: Download PDF