Trevor Robinson
Software Engineer at Gildre
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolTrevor Robinson is a seasoned software and dev-ops architect with over 30 years of experience and 17 years in senior engineering roles across startups and tech giants like Microsoft, Google, and Indeed. He specializes in cloud computing, distributed systems, deployment automation, search engines, and full-stack development with TypeScript and React, and currently leads platform engineering at LoanCrate. Trevor has built high-throughput, exactly-once messaging infrastructure at scale and migrated critical systems to AWS ECS, pairing deep systems design with practical DevOps automation using Terraform, Ansible, Vault, Kafka, Docker, and Kubernetes. As Co-Founder and CTO of FITT Finder he fused search and marketplace design to solve real-world discovery problems, and he contributes to notable open-source Node.js projects such as mysql2 and pino-http, improving driver behavior, timezone handling, and high-speed HTTP logging customization. Comfortable from C++ database engines to modern JS stacks, he brings a rare combination of low-level performance engineering and modern cloud-native practice. Based in Austin, he’s as likely to tune an ARM-scale benchmark as he is to ship a React feature that improves user discovery.
17 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE, Computer engineering, BSEE, Computer engineering at The University of Texas at AustinRobert E. Lee High School, Midland, TX
German, Spanish
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Github Skills (33)
javascript10
mysql10
databases10
typescript10
makefile10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
database10
api-design9
prepared-statements9
ubuntu9
filesystem9
datetime9
gcc9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
pinojs/pino-http
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
🌲 high-speed HTTP logger for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 2 PRs in 3 days
Contributions summary:Trevor primarily focused on enhancing the `pino-http` library, a high-speed HTTP logger. Their contributions included adding functionality to customize success and error messages, allowing developers to tailor logging output. Furthermore, the user addressed and corrected parameter ordering inconsistencies in the custom success/error message callbacks, and refactored code. They also added the ability to customize the log level based on the request.
speedloggernode-jsfastestlogging
sidorares/node-mysql2
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
:zap: fast mysqljs/mysql compatible mysql driver for node.js
Role in this project:Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Trevor primarily focused on enhancing the `node-mysql2` driver's functionality and test coverage. They added getter methods for `threadId` and `config` to the `PromiseConnection` object. Additionally, the user introduced support for timezones and fixed an issue related to invalid timezone handling. These changes included adding tests for the properties of `PromiseConnection` and modifying existing tests related to date and time data handling.
database-adapterfaunadbmysqlnode-jssql-database
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