Jun 2017 – Aug 2017 · 2 mos · Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

• ● Helped develop Erica, an AI financial chatbot in production to be used by 58 million people.
• ● Boosted Erica's accuracy over 4% by automating the creation of training data.
• ● Trained a machine learning model enabling Erica to identify the sentiment of users.
• ● Created web pages with React.js to simplify the training/testing of Erica.

Jan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 3 mos

• I make videos about programming, tech, and startups.
• https://www.youtube.com/c/benawad97

May 2016 – Aug 2016 · 3 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Developed a Python application for quants using Pandas library to analyze backtesting data.
• Improved backtesting speed of one model by 700%.
• Learned CloudQuant, a Python trading platform; taught other team members, and migrated C++ models.

Jan 2016 – May 2016 · 4 mos · Richardson, Texas

• Led team of 4 using Agile methodology to create a child abuse informational website.
• Replaced the need for hundreds of static HTML reports by converting to JSON, which can be easily searched by county, year, and topic.
• Scraped data using Python to create graphs with Highcharts JS.
• Hosted on GitHub: benawad.github.io/tex-protects.