PETER
RUBIN

I build web applications and the automated frameworks that protect them — end-to-end coverage with Cypress and Playwright, Drupal site building, and React development. Based in SF Bay Area.

HIRE ME View resume

SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94101AVAIL. Paid job/positionTIMEZONE PT

ObjectiveOPEN

To contribute meaningfully to a Software company through work focused on testing, automation and design within web development — building on a computer science foundation in Java, Assembly and Data Structures, and on hands-on Drupal site building and testing.

Roles held

Featured pieces

TECH STACKCypressPlaywrightSeleniumDrupalReactJira

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Featured proof

(a) / on screen

Webcamp demo

Kickstarting end-to-end testing with Automated Testing Kit

Running automation tests for the Neuroscience website — many components and tools working together, with tests executing live on screen. Seeing that many delegated tasks run at once is what makes this kind of automation matter.

Florida DrupalCamp

Events Platform: Automating the Testing Process

A conference session on bringing automated coverage to a Drupal events platform — how the testing process is structured and where automation replaces repetitive manual checks.

KWMR episode · 2025

“The Living Conversation”

A radio conversation joined through a university philosophy club — speaking on the topics I find most engaging to contemplate. Originally aired on The Living Conversation, courtesy of KWMR.

My Experience

(b) / timeline

Automation Testing Intern
2024 — Present
Performant Labs
- Contributed a full Feeds module to Automated Testing Kit v2.0 with support across both Cypress and Playwright.
- Built end-to-end testing workflows for the launch and pre-production rollout of the Wu Tsai Neuroscience website.
- Automated complex scenarios in JavaScript, streamlining regression cycles across browsers.
- Integrated the automated suites into the CI/CD pipeline for fast feedback and less manual testing.
Scrum Master & Project Lead
Jan 2025 — May 2025
SSU CS 370 — Software Project Design
- Led a team building a full-featured fitness-tracker web app in React with MongoDB: dashboard, metrics, charts, auth and admin tooling.
- Facilitated daily stand-ups, sprint planning and retrospectives; coordinated work in Jira and Zoom.
- Presented weekly releases with semantic versioning and release notes.
- Guided the full development lifecycle from backlog grooming to deployment.
Automation Engineer Intern
2022 — Present
Fibonacci Web Studio
- Configured Drupal Feeds and RSS modules to import articles from multiple external sources with full metadata mapping.
- Designed a CSV ingest workflow to sequence book chapters and page content from URL- and file-based inputs.
- Aligned imported content with internal taxonomy and layout standards.
- Troubleshot import errors and mapping rules across Feeds integration projects.
QA & System Testing Course
2022 — 2023
Portnov School
- Executed end-to-end bug tracking and defect management in Jira with clear documentation.
- Ran system administration testing from student and teacher perspectives, validating workflows and permissions.
- Performed exploratory testing on the “Flea Market” e-commerce UI across staging environments.
- Gained first exposure to Selenium, Jenkins, Postman and Cucumber, writing basic scripts and integration checks.

My Skills

Testing & Automation

Functional, integration, exploratory and cross-browser testing. Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, Cucumber, Postman, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines and Git-based version control.

Development

Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML and CSS across test scripts and white-box analysis. React front-ends, Drupal site building, MongoDB and MySQL schema design and querying.

Collaboration

Scrum Master experience leading stand-ups, sprint planning, retros and backlog grooming. Jira defect tracking, pull-request workflows and stakeholder reporting on QA outcomes.

Writings

(w) / medium posts

Medium · Apr 27, 2026 · 2 min read

Physical Hardware and Enterprise Technology Are the Next Phases of Software Companies — and Why I Want to Work in Hardware

Why technology is developing through hardware and infrastructure, and how basic software is more or less self-improving — and what that means for careers that maintain quality and substance.

Read on Medium

Medium · May 5, 2026 · 3 min read