# Noah Spector

> Software Engineer at Valon, Rice ’25 (CS + Math)

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/noahspector

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Valon
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, United States

### Software Engineer Intern @ Warp
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States

### Teaching Assistant: Reasoning about Algorithms @ Rice University
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Houston, Texas, United States

### Lead Developer @ Patent Pathways™ (a 501(c)(3) organization)
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
Built a candidate matching system for Patent Pathways, a nonprofit increasing diversity within the patent field, using MongoDB, Next.js, Auth0, Google Cloud, and React, saving hours of attorney time.
Led weekly meetings with program directors to analyze existing and future functionality.

### Teaching Assistant: Algorithmic Thinking @ Rice University
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Houston, Texas, United States
Helped students clarify concepts learned in class by answering questions and creating exercises during TA office hours.
Created and applied rubrics to assign consistent grades across three hundred discrete math and algorithm exams.

### Technology Division Intern @ CME Group
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Developed an algorithm to calculate CME Group’s estimated and actual migration costs to Google Cloud on a granular level using Python.
Designed a cost report in Power BI for FinOps and Architecture, creating a single, easy-to-understand place to assess forecasted-versus-actual cost.

### Teaching Assistant @ McDonogh School
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Owings Mills, Maryland, United States
Teaching assistant for Computational Physics I and II, which covered physics engines and evolutionary algorithms in Java. Brainstormed projects for the class, such as using a genetic algorithm to play blackjack. Helped students in the class debug their code. Taught a 60-minute class about designing a Java program.

### Research Intern @ The Johns Hopkins University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Trained a neural network to render series of ultrasound scans as 3D images, with the goal of bringing ultrasound vision to lumbar puncture procedures. Assisted development of sensitive ultrasound equipment.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Rice University

### High School Diploma
McDonogh School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/noah-spector

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Last updated: 2026-04-13