Noah Z. Rubin

About Me

I'm a software engineer living in Mountain View, CA and working for Google. I speak Spanish conversationally, I enjoy cycling, running, and strength training, and I also play the drums and guitar for fun.

Work Experience

I've been working as a software engineer for Google since February 2021. I'm currently designing and implementing a system that receives, processes, and makes available emails sent between Google Ads sellers and their customers. Most of my work is server-side Java, but I work at all levels of the stack, including the database, transport layer, and a bit of front-end.

Previously, I worked as a full-stack engineer for an internal web-based platform (Java and AngularDart), and before that, I worked on an internal mobile app (Flutter).

Selected Personal Projects

Finale: A client for Last.fm, a music tracking service. The app includes a variety of advanced features such as many ways to scrobble (log) the music you listen to and a collage generator. The app has been downloaded well over 50,000 times across iOS, Android, and macOS. It is also available on the web.
CodeLM: A programming competition I created in 2015 as a sophomore in high school. Each year, we invite high school students in the area to solve a variety of programming problems at an in-person event. Our most recent event was the tenth-annual iteration held in April 2024.
YouTube channel: I created my channel in 2013 and used to make videos teaching people how to code. Making these videos helped me learn how to code myself, and they have also helped many others — I've received quite a few nice comments over the years.
Drk Mode: A weekly live-streamed podcast that I do with my friend Luke Miani on his channel. We talk about all things Apple, including rumors, leaks, and news.

Education

I graduated magna cum laude from the Pennsylvania State University and Schreyer Honors College in December 2020 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Honors and a minor in Mathematics.

As part of the requirements to graduate with honors, I wrote an honors thesis. I did research in the PSU NLP Lab to improve an algorithm developed at the lab that automatically graded student-written summaries.