Rusty Roberts

mail @ rhroberts.dev•github.com/rhroberts
Currently based in Seattle, WA.

Employment

  • Programmer IV, Texas Water Development Board, Austin, TX (Nov. 2021 - Present)
    • Lead a small team to develop and maintain Water Data For Texas using an open-source web stack.
    • Support cloud infrastructure for web, database, and auxiliary services.
  • Programmer III, Texas Water Development Board, Austin, TX (Dec. 2019 - Nov. 2021)
    • Full-stack web developer for Water Data For Texas and internal scientific tools.
    • Contributed to upstream geographic and hydrographic software packages.
  • Graduate Research Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin (2016-2019)
    • Conducted research on emerging materials for electronic devices, which included writing Python applications for analyzing and visualizing scientific data.
  • Engineering Writer, Glosten, Inc., Seattle, WA (2014-2016)
    • Wrote and edited documentation, technical specifications, and marketing materials.

Education

  • M.S.E., Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2019)
  • B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Columbia University (2014)
  • B.A., Natural and Mathematical Sciences, Whitman College (2014, Dual-degree program with CU)

Technical Skills

  • Backend web development and scientific programming in Python (3 years)
  • RESTful APIs with Flask, FastAPI, and other frameworks (2 years)
  • Frontend web development with JavaScript/TypeScript and React (2 years)
  • Relational databases (PostgreSQL, sqlite) and object-relational mapping tools (2 years)
  • Provisioning and deployment automation with Ansible (2 years)
  • Linux server administration on cloud platforms such as AWS (2 years)

Outreach

  • Robotics and Coding Club, Cunningham Elementary School (2018-2019)
    • Collaborated with a small team of UT graduate students to develop curriculum for and teach a robotics after-school program.
  • Research Experience for Teachers, NSF NASCENT Center at UT-Austin (2017)
    • Mentored middle and high school science teachers on research projects related to nanotechnology and helped develop new curriculum for their students.

Select Publications and Presentations

R. H. Roberts, J.-F. Lin, and D. Akinwande. High-Pressure Vibrational and Optoelectronic Properties of Mono- and Multi-Layer Rhenium Disulfide (presentation). March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Los Angeles, 2018.

M. Wiesner, R. H. Roberts, J.-F. Lin, D. Akinwande, T. Hesjedal, L. B. Duffy, S. Wang, Y. Song, J. Jenczyk, S. Jurga, and B. Mroz. The effect of substrate and surface plasmons on symmetry breaking at the substrate interface of the topological insulator Bi2Te3. Scientific Reports, 9(1):6147, 2019.