Jiawen (Carmen) Zhang
Cambridge,MA
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineering Intern
Ramp
New York, USA
06.2025 - Current
- Ramp’s youngest intern (high school); designed and shipped financial infrastructure features impacting thousands of customers, owning projects end-to-end from architecture to deployment.
- Built self-serve reserve wallet account workflows and automated bank-letter generation, improving onboarding and operational scalability.
- Developed a service abstraction layer decoupling payment logic from core workflows, enabling extensibility for future financial features.
- Collaborated cross-functionally with engineering and product teams to ship production systems in a high-growth fintech environment.
Researcher
MIT CSAIL / Research Science Institute (RSI)
Cambridge, USA
06.2024 - Current
- Selected for the Research Science Institute (RSI); designed and built a machine learning model to analyze COVID-19 evolutionary dynamics in Professor Bonnie Berger’s lab at MIT CSAIL.
- Invited to continue research through MIT’s UROP program as an undergraduate researcher, contributing to ongoing lab projects.
- Participated in the RSI lecture series with Nobel Laureates and leading STEM researchers.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Cambridge, MA05-2028
High School -
Horace Mann School
New York, NY06-2025
Skills
- Machine learning and PyTorch
- Python, Java, C/C, and SQL
- APIs, databases, and software development
- Critical thinking
- Technical writing
- Leadership and public speaking
- Cross-cultural communication
Honors And Distinctions
- USA Computing Olympiad (USACO) — Platinum Division; EGOI Finalist, USACO Training Camp
- Regeneron International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF) — Finalist; 1st Place PL Engineering (TNYC) & NYU Tandon Engineering Award ($2K)
- Jane Street — First-Year Trading & Technology Program (FTTP); WISE Program
- American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) — Qualifier; Math Prize for Girls Distinction
- Neo Scholars — Finalist
- Sigma Xi — Member, The Scientific Research Honor Society
Timeline
Software Engineering Intern
Ramp
06.2025 - Current
Researcher
MIT CSAIL / Research Science Institute (RSI)
06.2024 - Current
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
High School -
Horace Mann School