Robert Bessler Email & Phone Number

Remote

Technologies: Node.js, Express.js, MariaDB, AWS EC2, nginxDescription: Web app that provides a customer with a friendly interface for viewing products* Scaled server and database routing using nginx load balancing between three t2.micro AWS EC2 instances to improve latency at 1000 rps from 1200ms down to 4ms* Curated database options with various stress tests to select the best performer and further optimized it to reduce the time to complete 1000 consecutive queries from 0.7s down to 0.28s* Split service and database into separate AWS EC2 instances results in a reduced processing time of 500 rps from 175ms per request to 30ms

Technologies: React, Express.js, Node.js, MongoDBDescription: Keeps track of groceries left to buy and automatically pulls pricing information * Developed full-stack app from scratch that displays pricing information from Kroger’s API in under 2 days * Built back-end capable of finding stores based on a ZIP code and retrieving various products at a store when given a partial string to search for

Technologies: React, Node.js, MySQL, AWS EC2, Jest Description: Prominently displays the various details, photos, and reviews associated with a specific phone * Reduced disk space usage by ~90% by designing an effective MySQL schema rather than using MongoDB * Established seeding script to populate the database with any number of records allowing many different variations and numbers of item options and enabling flexible designs that can be tested thoroughly * Constructed full stack web application from scratch and deployed it to AWS EC2 in under 3 weeks

Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, United States

- Devised Microsoft Access Database capable of monitoring parts movement to eliminate ~120 hours of time per year that would have been spent tracking down parts- Implemented report generation to allow leaders to effectively categorize and improve the most relevant and time-consuming activities out of ~18,000 maintenance actions performed annually