summer 2026
HubSpot
Built distributed data ingestion infrastructure, developing an async privacy review pipeline that leveraged the ingestion framework to process data and reliably coordinate downstream privacy review.
john rugemalila
I like building software for products, research, and education.
I’m a rising senior at the University of Chicago majoring in Computer Science, with interests in backend engineering and distributed systems.
Recently, I worked at HubSpot building data ingestion infrastructure. I’ve also built software for pediatric cancer research and conducted HCI research at the AIR Lab at UChicago.
experience
summer 2025
Data for Common Good
Built GraphQL data pipelines and caching for pediatric cancer research datasets, reducing response times and repeated API calls.
March 2024 - May 2026
Computer Science Instructional Laboratory
Led a team of six in developing SemaDoc, an AI-powered documentation tool, and led a team of five maintaining server operations for the CS Instructional Laboratory.
seasonal
Teaching and Research
- research assistant / Amyoli Internet Research Lab (AIR Lab) · paper
- teaching assistant / UChicago Booth School of Business · BUSN 32130: Data Analysis with Python and SQL
- course staff (grading) / UChicago CS Department · CMSC 23900: Data Visualization