Zachary Rubin
Assistant Professor at Insomniac Events
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolZachary Rubin is an engineer, game developer, and professor with 12+ years of applied experience and a PhD in Computer Engineering focused on game design, speech recognition, big data, and accessibility. He builds production-grade systems across Python, Unity/C#, Objective-C, and cloud platforms, and has shipped voice-enabled experiences for major games and education products—credits include Diablo III and StarCraft II as well as scalable ASR-driven apps for children. As a faculty leader he launched an accredited bachelor’s program in computer network engineering for non-traditional students using NSF funding, achieving high completion and diverse enrollment. His work uniquely spans embedded IoT and hardware prototyping to edge speech models that remove cloud costs, demonstrating a hands-on ability to translate research-grade ASR into low-latency, privacy-preserving products. Fluent in French and Japanese, he blends interdisciplinary research, accessibility-first design, and product-focused engineering in both academia and industry.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese for Science and Technology, Japanese for Science and Technology at Kanazawa Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California Santa CruzBachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
English, French, Japanese
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Github Skills (33)
speech-to-text10
speaker-verification10
location10
speech10
asr9
kaldi9
shell9
cuda9
speech-recognition8
project-management7
fortress7
dwarf6
database-access5
postgresql4
databases4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
GnosisGrain/CNA340
Apr 2019 - May 2021
Code and Work related to CNA340 IT Project Management
Contributions:15 commits in 2 years
project-management
Zohan/Steal_This_Mix
Sep 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:25 pushes in 5 years 5 months
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