Robert Krahn
Associate Director Of Bands - West Orange High School
Altamonte Springs, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Krahn is an accomplished music educator and band director with 14+ years cultivating a 240-member high school program at West Orange High School, where his ensembles have earned top honors at Music Performance Assessment for four consecutive years. He has taught AP Music Theory to over 450 students, consistently outperforming state and global passing averages and was invited to present AP test strategies at the Florida Music Education Association conference. Beyond classroom results, he has long shaped regional music infrastructure—coordinating the OCPS All-County Jazz Festival for 11 years, digitizing processes to double student participation, and serving as District Chair for the Florida Bandmasters Association while managing large-scale events under budget. He also contributed to curriculum assessment at the district level by developing the standardized Band 5 end-of-course test. A trained conductor with an MA from UCF and a background in practical software-oriented problem solving (notably contributing multi-select and search improvements to the widely used Ace editor and backend refinements in open-source tooling), he blends pedagogy, organizational leadership, and technical curiosity. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic innovator who improves student access and program sustainability through thoughtful process and technology.
14 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Music Education, Music Teacher Education, Bachelor of Music Education, Music Teacher Education at Stetson UniversityMaster of Arts - MA, Music - Instrumental Conducting, Master of Arts - MA, Music - Instrumental Conducting at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
middleware10
clojure-cli10
jsonpath10
clojure10
ace-editor10
nrepl10
clojurescript10
testing9
webbrowser9
algorithm9
compatible9
algorithms9
browser-support9
browser9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ajaxorg/ace
Feb 2013 - Nov 2014
Ace (Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:99 commits, 3 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the development and testing of the Ace editor's multi-select functionality. They added tests to reproduce and fix a bug related to pasting in multi-select mode. The user also refactored and cleaned up existing emacs keybindings and commands, including the addition of a missing keyboard quit command, and added functionality to the incremental search.
hostingcloud9javascriptomsace
clojure-emacs/cider-nrepl
Aug 2019 - Apr 2021
A collection of nREPL middleware to enhance Clojure editors with common functionality like definition lookup, code completion, etc.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 9 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to enhancing ClojureScript completions within the CIDER nREPL project. Their work focused on integrating and updating the "suitable" library, which provides intelligent code completion features. The commits demonstrate efforts to address bugs, improve context handling, and incorporate new functionalities. The user also added an optional flag to control the enhanced ClojureScript completion, providing users with greater flexibility.
nreplcidercode-completionnrepl-middlewareenhance
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