Julian Rosenblum
Programmer - Musician - Writer

Resume

Education

  • Yale University, Class of 2018
    • B.S. Computer Science, summa cum laude
  • Hunter College High School, Class of 2014
    • Computer Science Award
    • Beatrice Reuss Award for Excellence and Outstanding Commitment to Musical Life at Hunter
    • Life of the Mind Award

Employment

  • Facebook
    • Software Engineer (2018 — )
    • Software Engineering Intern (Summer, 2017)
  • Square — Software Engineering Intern (Summer, 2016)
  • MongoDB — Software Engineering Intern (Summer, 2015)
  • KeyMe — Software Engineering Intern (Summer, 2014)
  • Columbia University (work done while in high school)
    • TA for COMS W4115 Programming Languages and Translators (Fall, 2013)
    • Graduate-level research with adviser Stephen Edwards, static analysis of Haskell programs to optimize memory management of lists (2013 — 2014)

Programming
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • HTML/CSS
  • PHP
  • SQL
  • C
  • Haskell
  • OCaml
  • Ruby/Rails
  • Java

  • Sharp11
    • Music theory multitool with a jazz focus
    • Analyzes chords, creates scales, improvises over jazz chords and produces MIDI output
    • Available as an API and an interactive web app
  • Markato
    • Simple, powerful, and concise format for writing lyrics and chords
    • Customizable interface for displaying, transposing, and printing your songs
    • Play through the chords of your song with arrow keys and spacebar
    • www.markato.studio
  • Monquey
    • The No}}}); MongoDB Shell Syntax (compiler written in Haskell)
    • A custom designed, easier to read syntax for the MongoDB shell, transpiles to JavaScript
  • freshStart
    • Anonymous social-networking site for my high school (node.js, MySQL)
    • Users are anonymously paired based on gender and grade criteria, allowing them to make a second first impression
    • Over 500 registered users, over 150,000 messages sent
  • Flytrap(internship project at MongoDB)
    • Server to collect, process, and display crash reports produced by Google Breakpad
    • node.js, Express, Mocha, Jade, MongoDB, Bootstrap, AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda)
  • FOGL(Figure Oriented Graphics Language)
    • Designed original, high-level, imperative language and implemented compiler in OCaml high-level
    • Group leader of project for Columbia University COMS W4115
  • Yale Course Name Generator
    • Generates amusing fictitious courses based on real Yale course data
  • Wizargs
    • An npm module for defining functions with complex arguments
    • Supports required arguments, arguments with default values, splats, argument conditions, and more
  • SumType.js
    • Implementation of Haskell style sum types (tagged unions) in JavaScript
  • RADL(Really Awesome Data Language)
    • A language used for data storage that combines features from JSON and XML
    • RADL to JSON and RADL to XML translators written in Python
  • CanvasPlus

Games

A collection of browser games that I've made over the years

Tetreweled

A cross between Tetris and Bejeweled (HTML5)

Chroma

A mathematical color-mixing game (HTML5)

Pachelball

Use bouncing balls to create colorful, geometric music (HTML5)

TileTrack

A tile-based game puzzle game (HTML5)

Picross

A clone of the classic Picross puzzle game (HTML5)

Sketchpad

A simple sketching app (HTML5)

Conic Grapher

A tool for graphing conic sections given various criteria (HTML5)

SpaceShooter

A simple shooting game (Flash)

PacAttack

A twist on the classic PacMan game (Flash)

Tribulations

A quirky 40-question quiz game that encourages you to think outside the box (Flash)

Drumset

A drumest simulator featuring keyboard control and basic recording functionality (Flash)

Eyes

Eyes that follow your mouse (Flash)

Music

I'm a pianist, drummer, composer, and arranger. I enjoy playing a variety of genres including jazz, rock, and R&B. I've played drums with the Yale Undergraduate Jazz Orchestra and Yale-based R&B/Funk group Shyampagne.

I served for two years as the head arranger for the Yale Precision Marching Band, for whom I've arranged over 65 songs spanning genres from rock to pop to hip-hop. In addition, I have composed a number of original works.

When possible, I like to combine music and programming, yielding projects like Sharp11 and Markato.

Listen to my music on SoundCloud

Writing

What I Learned From Creating a High School Social Network

A retrospective on freshStart, over two years later.

A Very Particular Set of Skills

An amusing snapshot of my foray into tech.

Humor

Official Post-Coital Offer Letter

Published in McSweeney's Internet Tendency.

Yale Student Admitted By Mistake

Published in The Yale Record.

Yalie Horrified to Discover Girlfriend Loves Him for Who He Is

Published in The Yale Record.

MTA Service Adisory

This is a message from the MTA New York City Transit.

Matzo Ball on a Flat Earth

A (mostly) fictional story of Julian discovering that he is actually nothing more than a Jewish stereotype.

The All-American (Jewish) Family

The All-American Family, but with some slight variations.

I’m Not Much Of A Jew, But I Am Jew-ish

Confessions of a Rosenblum.

FAQ: Jacob's Bris

In case you haven't gotten enough Jewish humor.

PSA: The Gateway Drug

Don't buy drugs off the deep web, kids.

The Book of Gilgar

The creation myth we deserve.

I Am Writing a JavaScript to Rust Transpiler in Haskell, So Please Just End My Suffering

Since there seemed to be some uncertainty on Hacker News, let me clarify that this is indeed satire.

Stand-up Comedy

Unpopular Opinions and Uncomfortable Conversations

Magic Camp

Life is Hard

Assholes, Cheeseburgers, Blue's Clues

Jews, Growing Up, Computer Science

Jews, Yale, Hamilton

Attraction, Being Humbled, Milk & Honey