Robert Myers
Retired at Home
Spring, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Myers is a seasoned IT manager and retired technology entrepreneur with a career spanning military service, hardware-focused startups, and long-term leadership in enterprise IT. Over four decades he progressed from USAF-trained technician to President/CEO of an independent computer maintenance firm and IT Manager at The Shrieve Group, specializing in legacy systems like WANG equipment and complex hardware ecosystems. He has deep hands-on experience in hardware and software training, systems maintenance, and transitioning businesses through product pivots and acquisitions. In retirement he remains technically active—contributing backend improvements to an open-source NodeJS Kraken API client—demonstrating a blend of legacy systems knowledge and modern coding practices. Based in Spring, Texas, he brings pragmatic problem-solving, operational leadership, and a knack for keeping aging infrastructure reliable.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Life, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Life at School of Hard Knocks
Github Skills (8)
error-handling10
nodejs10
javascript10
api10
apidoc10
kraken9
s69
refactoring8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nothingisdead/npm-kraken-api
Nov 2013 - May 2020
[DEPRECATED] NodeJS Client Library for the Kraken (kraken.com) API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 19 PRs, 20 pushes in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Robert contributed to the core functionality of a NodeJS client library designed to interact with the Kraken.com API. Their work involved updating the code to utilize ES6 features and modifying API calls. Furthermore, the user refactored the code and replaced the `request` module with `got` library. These changes aimed to improve code maintainability, upgrade the library's dependencies, and improve error handling.
api-clientapiclient-librarysdknodejs
nothingisdead/pg-live-query
Feb 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:1 release, 34 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 5 months
queryrealtimeeventsupdatedatabase
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