Zachary Zak Rubin

About Zachary Zak Rubin

Engineer, Game Developer, and Professor. Tell me your hardest problem!Presently an engineer at Insomniac Events. In the evening I am the director for the bachelor\'s in computer networking at Renton Technical College. PhD in Computer Engineering (Game Design, Speech Recognition, Big Data, Accessibility) from the University of California, Santa Cruz.Skills- 8 years teaching computer engineering and STEM courses at the university level. Experience with Canvas and Blackboard- 4 years instructional design experience at the Bachelors level- 16 years experience designing and developing automatic speech recognition systems- 16 years programming experience in a variety of IDEs and languages- 10 years hardware, embedded, and IoT experience. Currently using Python, Unity, C#, Objective-C, C, and SQL- 16 years as a game developer and engineer. Credited in Diablo Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm, World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, Radio General, and Sayin’ It Sam- 16 years of experience in computer networking, system administration, and DevOps- 13 years A/V production with the Adobe Suite and open source tools - 10+ publications in peer reviewed journals on human-computer interaction and game research- Native English speaker. French and Japanese fluency- Principal Investigator for NSF Grant 16•••40, Co-PI for NSF Grant 19•••19

Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Insomniac Events

   May 2023 — Present · US

   Special Projects Initiatives (Skunk Works) engineer. Imagine how huge-scale premiere music festivals will operate like in 5-10 years time. We evaluate next-generation technologies for prime time, and integrate them. We improve experiences for everyone: sales, ops, staff, and most importantly, headliners.

Education

• Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering

  2007 — 2011

• University of California, Santa Cruz

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction

  2011 — 2017

• Kanazawa Institute of Technology

  Japanese for Science and Technology

  2009 — 2009

Skills

• C#
• Photoshop
• Eagle Pcb
• Network Security
• C
• Java
• Arduino
• Python
• Game Design
• Php
• Human Computer Interaction
• Mysql
• Opengl
• Html
• Objective-C
• Capybara Care
• Electronics Hardware Design
• Digital Signal Processing
• Software Engineering
• Networking
• Game Development
• C++
• Research
• Butt Lasers
• Wireless Sensor Networks
• Speech Recognition