Ruben Bloom
Team Lead For LessWrong at Lightcone Infrastructure
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRuben Bloom is a versatile generalist and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building data-driven products, community platforms, and research-grade tooling from Berkeley. As Team Lead for LessWrong at Lightcone and co-founder of LessWrong 2.0, he blends full‑stack development, product strategy, and philosophical rigor to design knowledge technologies and culture aimed at tackling humanity's hardest problems. His background spans data science and product management at Euclid—where he shipped predictive analytics, improved data accuracy by 20% and scaled BI—and research engineering in computational neuroscience and browser-based computer vision. Ruben frequently contributes to the ForumMagnum codebase (LessWrong2/EA Forum), adding analytics, UX improvements, and instrumentation across posts, comments, and user flows. He pairs hands‑on technical chops (Vulcan JS, analytics, SQL/Pandas) with a research mindset and an entrepreneur’s drive to pursue high-impact projects.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (with Honours) and Bachelor of Arts (B.Eng/B.A.), Electrical and Computer Systems, Philosophy, Psychology, GPA: 3.5/4.0, First Class Honours (Summa cum laude), Bachelor of Engineering (with Honours) and Bachelor of Arts (B.Eng/B.A.), Electrical and Computer Systems, Philosophy, Psychology, GPA: 3.5/4.0, First Class Honours (Summa cum laude) at Monash University
Github Skills (15)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
web-development10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
data-integration9
sql-database9
api9
apim9
databases9
testing8
version-control7
git7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ForumMagnum/ForumMagnum
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
The development repository for LessWrong2 and the EA Forum, based on Vulcan JS
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:558 reviews, 785 commits, 677 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ruben's commits primarily focused on integrating new analytical events into the LessWrong2 and EA Forum codebase, specifically within the framework of the existing Vulcan JS framework. They implemented analytics tracking across several key components, including posts, comments, and user-specific sections, which involved adding context labels and tracking event triggers (clicks, views, and page load events). The user also worked on refining the user experience through modifications like improving the wording of and adding functionality to the wiki and making the interface more user-friendly.
vulcanforumforums
LessWrong2/Analytics
Sep 2019 - May 2023
Contributions:10 reviews, 65 PRs, 148 pushes in 3 years 8 months
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