Hi there! I'm

Brendan Conn.

About Me

I am a 28 year old entrepreneur, student at LMU, avid outdoorsman, and fitness enthusiast..

School

I study entrepreneurship at LMU.

Work Experience

I'm currently building Janey, a supplement wellness company producing the first ever supplements for cannabis users.

Achievements

3 time LMU Fred Kienser Center for Entrepreneurship Award Winner, 3rd place finish at St. Thomas eFest Pitch competition ($20k prize), 3rd place finish at UGA Collegiate Great Brands Pitch Competition ($3k prize), summiter of many mountains and lifter of many weights.

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About Me.

Ever since I embarked on my programming journey as a young child, I've been entranced by the power and flexibility of code.

Today, I'm an avid programmer currently interested in machine learning and systems. Programming is my superpower: With it, what I can create is limited only by my imagination!

Outside of programming, I play a lot of board games, especially social deduction games (my personal favorite is Secret Hitler). I also enjoy discussing politics and government, watching movies, reading books, traveling, and (occasionally) learning about tax deductions!

I strive to bring energy, technical knowledge, and a strong desire to learn with me wherever I go.

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School.

I'm currently a student at MIT studying Computer Science.

Technical Grad Classes:

  • 6.521 Advanced Algorithms
  • 6.584 Distributed Systems
  • 6.390 Computer Vision
  • 6.790 Machine Learning

Technical Undergrad Classes:

  • 18.600 Probability and Random Variables
  • 18.650 Fundamentals of Statistics
  • 6.106 Software Performance Engineering
  • 6.110 Computer Language Engineering (Static Compilers)
  • 6.181 Operating Systems Engineering
  • 6.1811 Natural Language Processing
  • 6.190 Introduction to Low-level Programming in C and Assembly
  • 6.191 Computation Structures

In Spring 2023, I was an LA for 6.S063 Design for the Web. Outside of classes, I am part of the HackMIT team. I also enjoy participating in New York Systems Reading Group.

Before coming to MIT, I was a student at Monta Vista High School, where I participated in a variety of clubs, including Model UN, FBLA, AI Club, and Competitive Programming Club.

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Work Experience.

To view my full work experience, please visit my Linkedin page.

Modal Labs — Fall 2024

I am currently a Member of Technical Staff at Modal, a serverless cloud computing platform. I learned Rust, fixed gVisor issues, worked with Kubernetes, and investigated networking issues, reducing the latency of our serverless web endpoints by up to 3x.

Hudson River Trading — Summer 2024

HRT is a quantitative finance company. As a C++ Core Developer Intern, I completed 8 projects in 11 weeks, building multi-terabyte log viewers, optimizing memory profilers, refactoring code, and much more.

Codeium — Summer 2023

Codeium is a company that builds AI-powered developer tools such as autocomplete. I led the initiative to quantize our large language model, achieving a ~2.3x speed increase for our company's product in just 11 weeks.

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Achievements.

4x USACO Finalist

In 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, I was selected as part of 26 students to participate in the national USA Computing Olympiad training camp.

Competitive Programming · Olympiads

5x AIME Qualifier

In 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021, I qualified to take the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME), which is offered to the top 2.5% of students.

Math · Olympiads
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Contact Me.

I really enjoy meeting new people! Please feel free to reach out.

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