Alex Hersler Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• Built VS Code extension (900+ installs) to visualize component tree, routing structure and data fetching methods of Next.js applications, using myriad VS Code APIs to achieve fullstack functionality in a Node runtime without a server• Developed React-based UI, using Classes over Hooks to orchestrate a caching system for updating state (storing all parent components' children on the frontend), sacrificing initial tree generation time to decrease rerender time by 5%• Employed lightweight Acorn parser to traverse AST, extracting hundreds of relevant nodes to render in visualizer• Leveraged Jest and Test Driven Development to build out AST parsing algorithm's 14 methods within 3 weeks• Harnessed TypeScript to reinforce type safety throughout the backend to minimize runtime errors and improve developer productivity by 20%, achieving better longevity and maintainability within the open source community• Adopted Next.js to design and build a dummy application in one week, integrating Dynamic Routing, and static-site and server-side methods to demonstrate Next.js’ build time vs run time rendering capabilities during development• Mentored a junior engineer, pair programming to instill concepts, enabling him to independently complete five tickets• Generated two webpack configurations for optimization, nesting the React frontend bundle within the Node backend build for a smoother deployment and using the uglification and minification features to decrease file size by over 98%• Product developed under tech accelerator OS Labs (opensourcelabs.io)

• Employed SQL to build a data-driven ticket manager to track dozens of backend bug fixes, ensuring robust systems compatibility with the platform agnostic language, providing customizable analytics with a streamlined GUI• Improved existing websites, employing established layout patterns, visual hierarchy, consistent personality, and Material Design typography best practices to align business goals with users goals for enhanced UX

Berlin, De

• Employed React Router, accepting a longer initial page load time for more declarative code and a more familiar UX• Implemented React Testing Library to mimic user interactions rather than Enzyme’s clunky state and props manipulation• Adopted lightweight Context API for smaller scale simplicity, using Hooks to decouple logic from lifecycle methods• Leveraged a web scraper to aggregate data, caching the queried results in state on the front end to reduce serverside latency

Berlin, De

• Harnessed Redux to improve and consolidate state management, ensuring better maintainability and scalability• Utilized Express to capitalize on modularized middleware paradigm and build REST APIs with Node.js compatibility

Berlin, De

• Migrated backend from SQL to NoSQL to better support non-relational data that benefited from loose schemas, trading ACID compliance for scalability and less overhead

Oakland, Ca, Us

• Implemented intuitive UI to responsively render all projects' financial health, overhauling the post department budget tracking system, improving the rate of projects that hit/beat the budget by 10%, saving tens of thousands of dollars• Composed 28 standard operating procedure docs in three quarters, establishing a comprehensive, organized single source of truth for all processes and expectations, allowing the company to double its full time staff within two years• Trained staff to work as post producers when live production was shut down during Covid, developing and executing a plan to complete the training in three weeks, allowing the company to stay afloat with post production only work

Oakland, Ca, Us

Oakland, Ca, Us

• Identified a need and pioneered an internal project management tool, using macros to track milestones and daily tasks on 10-20 active projects, optimizing resources and preventing bottlenecks, empowering the company to scale

• Investigated the implications of AI autonomously creating art and what might be lost and gained from collaborating with an Artificial Creative Intelligence in the play Algorithmism, produced in three weeks at the NY Fringe Festival• Crafted six original plays, receiving feedback at workshops with humility, gratitude and a grain of salt; offered empathetic and constructive feedback at colleagues' workshops• Collaborated on dozens of teams from five to thirty multidisciplinary theatre professionals, engaging with respect for the teams' variety of strengths, and arriving at egoless decisions in the service of the work

• Composed, directed and performed the drumline-style percussive score for the Bay Area Premiere ofColossal— Press —"One of the most memorable sound wraps that I've ever encountered in the theater."- Pacific Sun"Alex Hersler's percussion orchestrations and drum line add the real sound track to this dazzling play."- Theatre Arts Reviews and Events"Terrific drum corps"- SF Gate"The play would not be extraordinary if it were not for the three drummers….these beats give the work aforce and momentum."- Artssf.com

Oakland, Ca, Us

• Established resilient ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure through hiring and coordinating casting, crew, locations, equipment, costumes and props, ensuring productions were executed on time, and on budget

Bachelor Of Science - Bs (With Honors)

Computer Software Engineering