Jorge Robles
From the band room to the command line.
Building agentic AI tools and full-stack features at Google. Former NYC music teacher. Queens College CS & Music Education.
About
I started my career as a music teacher and band director in New York City public schools. For three years I taught hundreds of students, designed curricula, and ran a program that demanded both creativity and meticulous organization. When COVID-19 upended education in 2020, I began channeling my problem-solving instincts into code.
What started as a curiosity became a calling. I went back to Queens College to earn a second bachelor's degree in Computer Science while still working full-time. I tutored fellow students, won first place at HackCUNY (100+ participants), and freelanced as a developer building tools for the same schools where I once taught.
Today I'm a Software Engineer at Google, building agentic AI tools and full-stack features that ship to millions. The musician in me never left — it shows up in how I compose systems, conduct teams, and find rhythm in complex codebases.
Dec 2024 — Present
Software Engineer, Google
AI tools, full-stack, cloud infrastructure
Feb 2024
HackCUNY — 1st Place
AI Advisor, 100+ participants
Jan 2024
B.A. Computer Science
Queens College, CUNY
2019 — 2022
Music Teacher, NYC DOE
Band director & educator
Jan 2020
B.A. Music Education
Queens College, CUNY
Experience
Software Engineer
- Created an internal CLI tool with Rust that acts as an agentic harness for Gemini models, capable of running multiple communicating agent instances with a minimalist, customizable architecture.
- Designed and deployed an orchestrated AI agent workflow that automated a multi-quarter codebase-wide migration, saving over 300 SWE hours.
- Built full-stack features for Google Cloud Storage and modernized ad infrastructure across two teams (Ads and Cloud).
- Architected a custom monitoring schema reducing in-memory data usage by 95% for a client-side observability system.
- Led the deprecation of a legacy network API, removing over 700 lines of complex code from a system serving billions of requests.
Software Engineer Intern
VegBoom Corp
- Built and soft-launched a full-stack web application that reduced user research time by 60% and achieved a 95% positive feedback rate in pre-launch testing.
Freelance Software Developer
Self-Employed
- Developed a scheduling system that automated pedagogical staffing constraints, saving educators 30 hours annually.
- Designed full-stack educational management systems, improving operational efficiency by 50% for educational institutions.
Music Teacher & CS Tutor
NYC DOE & Queens College
- Taught music at M.S. 137 as a full-time band director, designing curriculum and managing multiple student ensembles.
- Tutored computer science students at Queens College, bridging the gap between theoretical concepts and practical application.
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Always interested in hearing about new opportunities, collaborations, or just connecting with fellow engineers and creators.