Scott Rubin
Senior UX Product Designer at Caterpillar Inc.
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Rubin is a Senior UX Product Designer with 10 years of experience crafting user-centered products across logistics, healthcare, and industrial services. Currently at Caterpillar, he designs service information systems that help technicians maintain heavy equipment, and previously led UX strategy for complex healthcare products at Blue Cross that demystified claims and supported oncology care. He brings a rare mix of hands-on front-end development (Ruby on Rails) and deep research-driven design, having been the first designer at a startup to scale product and revenue. Scott’s background in music composition and organizing experimental performance series informs a collaborative, systems-thinking approach to service and interaction design. Based in Chicago, he excels at aligning cross-functional teams to turn complex domain knowledge into usable, trust-building experiences.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Music Composition, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Music Composition at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Music, Music Composition, Master of Music, Music Composition at McGill University
English, French
Github Skills (8)
user-experience9
nyc9
public-transportation8
ruby-on-rails7
transit7
react6
typescript5
javascript2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
shrubin2/scottrubinmusic
Feb 2026 - Jun 2026
Contributions:30 pushes, 13 branches in 3 months
shrubin2/heroesinterlopers
Mar 2026 - May 2026
Contributions:10 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
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