Robin Nabel
Software Engineer at poolside
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRobin Nabel is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building production-grade systems across distributed infrastructure, machine learning tooling, and developer-facing APIs. Currently at Poolside AI and previously at Jane Street, Improbable and Google, he blends low-latency backend engineering with front-end visualization and test automation. His contributions range from improving CLI ergonomics and adding bash completion to a blockchain storage project to enhancing TensorBoard’s UI and hardening a Python Drive API wrapper with thread-safe tests. At Improbable he accelerated iteration by making CI builds ~90% faster and implemented a zero-allocation protobuf transport for games, demonstrating a practical focus on performance. Based in London, he combines research-era ML debugging experience from Google Brain with production systems know-how, often improving developer workflows and tooling behind the scenes.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
EAP - full year exchange program Computer Science, EAP - full year exchange program Computer Science at University of California, DavisMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at University of St AndrewsNanodegree Self-Driving Car Engineering, Nanodegree Self-Driving Car Engineering at UdacityHigh School, High School at Worcester Sixth Form College
English, German, French, Arabic
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (34)
unit-testing10
gdrive10
javascript10
visualization10
python10
drive10
testing10
command-line-interface10
typescript10
go10
blockchain10
typescript-types10
command-line10
typescripts10
visualizations10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
googlearchive/PyDrive
Jun 2016 - May 2017
Google Drive API Python wrapper library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 releases, 40 commits, 10 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Robin primarily contributed to the testing and functionality of the Google Drive API wrapper library. They implemented tests for new features, such as `drive.GetAbout`, and integrated them into the testing framework. Additionally, the user addressed bugs, implemented file operation tests, and improved the test suite to include folder listing capabilities. They also refactored and made the library thread-safe.
google-drive-apipythongsuitegoogle-drive
NebulousLabs/Sia
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Blockchain-based marketplace for file storage. Project has moved to GitLab: https://gitlab.com/NebulousLabs/Sia
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 6 PRs, 67 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Robin primarily worked on refactoring and updating the codebase related to the `siac` command-line interface in the Sia blockchain project. Their contributions included renaming commands, updating variable names and comments for consistency, and adding new functionality such as a bash completion command. The majority of their work focused on improving the structure and usability of the command-line tools. They also made updates to download functionality.
blockchaingitlabclouddecentralizeddistributed
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