Leo James Rudberg
(first initial)(middle initial)(last name)at gmail dot com
(847) 830 5813 | https://github.com/LOZORD/me | https://lru.neocities.org
Updated June 2025
Profile
I am not currently looking for new opportunities, but you are always welcome to say hello!
Work Experience
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER, TECH LEAD
Google, New York, NY
September 2016-Present
- Mobile App Release Infrastructure: April 2021-Present
- Currently work on the backend tooling team of Google's mobile infrastructure group, enabling easier development and releases for all our app teams at Alphabet, across both iOS and Android. Focus on DevOps components of mobile development, including my role as both tech and product lead for an internal launch service. Work on tooling for shipping iOS Apps to the App Store in a way that conforms to Alphabet policies. I also work on a metric ingestion system that interfaces directly with Apple's APIs. I also led and landed an effort to centralize our Apple system communication channels and increased overall QPS by 50x.
- Google Cloud Build: 2019-2021
- Worked on the backend of Cloud Build. I maintained and developed several internal services for our build triggering, results, and notification platforms. I authored and launched our open source notifications system at github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-build-notifiers. Worked closely with our databases, internal frameworks, Search- and Cloud-based infrastructure, designing and deploying APIs, and monitoring and being responsible for production systems, including oncall rotations. Designed and launched a fault-tolerent, low-latency migration off of a pub-sub system onto a distributed queuing system. Promoted from L3 to L4.
- Build-Test-Deploy Infrastructure: 2017-2019
- Promoted from L2 to L3. Worked on the backend for our internal build/test result UI. Helped coordinate and design systems for our internal+Cloud convergence work.
- Golang Tooling Team: 2017
- Engineering Residency rotation: worked on scaling open-source refactoring tool to work on Google's monorepo using distributed system technologies.
- Engineering Residency rotation; worked on full-stack Go and Angular app that visualized results from a machine learning skunkworks project based on Maps data
- Hosted multiple summer interns (with stellar host feedback!)
- Worked on a 20% pro-bono project through Google's Internet org with STAR-TIDES in an effort to close the digital divide in NYC
- Received Superb (2019) and Transformative (2023) ratings, only given to the top < 5% of employees.
- Won Tech award for my effort in Google Photos backend work for the Android 12/Pixel 6 launch.
LEAD FRONT-END WEB DEVELOPER
Paradrop (paradrop.io) / Exis (exis.io), Madison, WI
May 2014-May 2015, September 2015-May 2016
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INTERN
Intuit QuickBooks Online Ecosystem, Mountain View, CA
June 2015-August 2015
LEAD FRONT-END WEB DEVELOPER
Loadin, Madison, WI
November 2013-July 2014
ASSOCIATE MATHEMATICIAN INTERN
WMS Gaming, Chicago, IL
June 2013-August 2013
Skills
I know many other programming languages and can pick up new ones quickly.
I prefer working in a Linux-y development environment, and am very comfortable with standard developer tools. I am also a semi-professional bassist and guitarist!
Education
ITP CAMP, NYU TISCH
June 2024, June 2025
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
August 2012-May 2016
- B.S. in Computer Sciences
- B.S. in Mathematics
- Honors in the Liberal Arts