Hi, I'm Michael 👋

$192K+

saved for clients across 200+ n8n automations that moved staff off repetitive work.

73%

less time onboarding new clients, with a deployed onboarding automation and custom dashboard.

~81 hrs

of labor saved a month by a Slack bot that securely triggers backend automations.

15

Zapier Zaps migrated to n8n, so the workflows are sturdier, cheaper, and under the client's control.

Have a process that eats your team's week? Tell me about it.

1. 2025 — Present Current

   Founder & Principal Engineer

   Rubiconetic

   • One-person software studio. I do the product design, the architecture, the build, the store release, and the support calls after.
   • Shipped Scanity to the iOS App Store and Google Play. It's an ingredient scanner that resolves additives through their E-numbers, trade names, and synonyms across 452,000+ products; originally built with React Native and Expo, then migrated to Swift and Skip.dev for Android.
   • Built Scanity's data layer on USDA FoodData Central and Open Food Facts with nightly refreshes, and kept user data on the device rather than on a server.
   • Building MacroMeso, a diet and training engine that pairs macro targets with mesocycle programming.
   • Run the studio's backend on a self-hosted two-node Kubernetes (K3s) cluster managed through GitOps. Client-facing n8n webhooks go out through Cloudflare Tunnels with no open firewall ports, and every admin tool stays off the public internet.
   • Built off-site disaster recovery for that cluster on AWS with Terraform: encrypted nightly backups to versioned S3 storage, a least-privilege key that can't remove versions, and a tested restore. The code and post-mortems are public at github.com/michaelrubi/homelab.
2. Jan 2025 — Present Current

   Freelance Automation Engineer & Web Developer

   Upwork

   • Saved clients over $192K by delivering 200+ n8n automations, moving staff off repetitive work.
   • Cut client onboarding time 73% with a deployed onboarding automation and custom dashboard.
   • Migrated 15 Zapier Zaps to n8n, producing more robust and cost-effective workflows under client control.
   • Built a Slack bot that securely triggers backend automations for content generation and data processing, saving ~81 labor hours per month.
3. Sep 2023 — Jan 2025

   Personnellist

   United States Air Force (Reserve)

   • Worked with unit stakeholders to put new personnel processes in place, which kept actions accurate and on schedule.
   • Consistently exceeded assigned performance goals while serving part-time and moving into development full-time.
4. Jun 2010 — Sep 2023 13 yrs

   Avionics Craftsman

   United States Air Force (Active Duty)

   • Led teams of 8–15 technicians through avionics system assessments, troubleshooting, and repair.
   • Earned the 7-level Craftsman rating, the Air Force's senior technical qualification for the career field.
   • Managed logistics, tooling, and manpower for system assessments across concurrent aircraft.
   • Briefed technical detail, project status, and objectives to team members and senior stakeholders.

• BAS, Internet & Web Development

  ASU · Aug 2024

  Graduated summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA. JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Git, and Agile delivery.

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  AAS, Avionic Systems Technology

  Community College of the Air Force

  Earned in service, alongside the 7-level Craftsman rating.

• Digital Marketing & E-commerce Certificate

  Google · Jan 2025

  SEO, campaign analytics, and e-commerce operations. Via Coursera.

1. Oct 19, 2026

   Piggybacking on ArtCraft: Why My Oma Apps Got Easier to Build

   ArtCraft released open-source Rust rebuilds of Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator and Figma right as I started my own Omarchy apps. Here's how Omacull, OmaLux and Omapix borrow from them, why they still need to exist, and why Omavec doesn't.

2. Oct 3, 2026

   Building Omapix: Replacing Photoshop on Linux with Rust and Opus 5.5

   GIMP drove me to Adobe in the first place, so I'm building its replacement. How I direct Omapix, a Rust image editor, with Claude Opus 5.5, plus OmaCull and OmaLux to ditch Adobe end-to-end.