Robert W
System Engineering Manager at Tessera Data
Huntersville, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolRobert W is a System Engineering Manager with 15 years of experience building reliable backend systems and leading engineering teams from Huntersville, North Carolina. He moved up through hands-on Java development to managerial leadership at Tessera Data, where he now focuses on designing systems composed of small, well-designed parts. An active open-source contributor, Robert has improved performance-critical features in popular Go projects like the Revel web framework and contributed backend fixes to a specialized analytics platform for Final Fantasy XIV. He combines pragmatic engineering—implementing HTTP compression, benchmarks, and bug fixes—with a knack for refactoring and performance tuning. Colleagues describe him as someone who enjoys solving complicated problems by composing small, testable components and closing the loop between code and measurable outcomes. Outside work he brings the same attention to detail to niche projects, showing an ability to move between product-focused enterprise work and community-driven open source.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of South Carolina-ColumbiaBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Western Carolina University
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Github Skills (23)
debug10
compress10
typescript10
ff10
go10
f10
ffi10
revel10
typescript-types10
compression10
web-framework10
typescripts10
testing9
gzip9
code-optimization9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
revel/revel
Jun 2013 - Nov 2013
A high productivity, full-stack web framework for the Go language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to improving the performance and functionality of the Revel web framework. They implemented HTTP compression using gzip and zlib to optimize response sizes. Further contributions included refactoring and renaming functions, adding benchmarks for the compression, and fixing minor issues to ensure optimal performance. They also updated the test application to include the new compression filter.
golangproductivityfull-stackweb-applicationframework
xivanalysis/xivanalysis
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
Automated performance analysis and suggestion platform for Final Fantasy XIV
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 5 commits, 12 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Final Fantasy XIV performance analysis platform. Their commits focused on fixing bugs related to Astrologian job calculations, including Earthly Star drift and Aspected Benefic ability ID. They also made improvements to the application's code by removing extraneous spaces in translations and marking the Astrologian support for a new game update. These changes involved modifying code related to various Astrologian modules.
performance-analysistlaanalysisfinal-fantasy-xivperformance
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