Bob Hoeppner
Javascript Developer at POWER SPECIALISTS ASSOC., INC
Brady, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarBob Hoeppner is a JavaScript developer with eight years of hands-on experience and a strong background in performance engineering across multiple languages. Based in Brady, Texas, he is a retired VB Classic, C#, SQL, and JavaScript developer who now contributes to open-source learning on Exercism, mentoring exercises and adding benchmark-driven approaches. His cross-language work—spanning C#, Python, C, and Rust—focuses on benchmarking, memory-safety fixes, and optimizing algorithmic solutions, showing a rare blend of practical QA/test automation and low-level performance tuning. Notably, he has used BenchmarkDotNet and Rust’s test crate to compare and improve implementations, and has eliminated memory leaks in C test suites to strengthen reliability. The combination of mentoring experience and deep performance analysis makes him adept at improving both code correctness and execution efficiency.
8 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (36)
algorithm10
algorithms10
benchmark10
performance-analytics10
performance-monitor10
code-profiling10
python10
testing10
memory-management10
benchmarking10
benchmarkdotnet10
c1110
data-structure10
performance-testing10
c1710
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
exercism/python
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Exercism exercises in Python.
Role in this project:
Performance Engineer
Performance EngineerContributions:104 reviews, 379 commits, 32 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Bob focused on performance optimization within the Exercism Python track by creating and updating benchmark tests. The commits primarily involved benchmarking various Python code implementations for different exercises, including "Bob," "Leap," "Grains," "Pangram," "Isogram," and "RNA Transcription." The work included comparing different algorithmic approaches, such as using bit shifting, sets, and different methods for string manipulation and translation, to find the most efficient solutions.
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exercism/rust
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
Exercism exercises in Rust.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:60 reviews, 89 commits, 38 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Bob contributed to the exercism/rust repository, focusing on adding and improving exercises. Their contributions included updating and refactoring existing exercises like forth and luhn, and adding performance-focused approach examples for exercises like bob, leap, grains, isogram, and pangram. These changes involved code improvements, and the introduction of benchmarking using the `test` crate, aimed at optimizing solutions for the Rust-based exercises.
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