Trevor Lohrbeer

Trevor Lohrbeer

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ABOUT ME
Entrepreneur + coder who can help you build and launch new products
Entrepreneur + coder who can help you build and launch new products

In the process of starting my next company, but taking time to do some contracting and mentoring while I work out the details on that.

I've been programming since I was 9 and have over 25 years of professional development experience. As a serial entrepreneur, I've started 3 software companies and sold 2.

I bring deep experience and wisdom gathered over the past 25 years along with skills in hot new technologies like Ember, React & Node.

I specialize in creating paradigms--conceptual maps that help people navigate your product, API or codebase. I help you draw the lines between concerns, organize related parts of your application and name the boxes in your architecture diagrams.

I'm passionate about getting the concepts of your application right, since they affect everything from your user interface to your database design to how you organize your code. But I can also help out with gnarly debugging issues.

In my volunteer work, I am a mentor for Venture Asheville, a mentor program based off the MIT Venture Mentoring Service. I mentor startups using frameworks like Scrum and Lean Startup to search for product-market fit, then figure out how to scale their businesses to achieve rapid growth.

In my personal time, I am an avid swing dancer & barefoot runner. I practice life hacking--using tricks and techniques to improve my habits, lifestyle and happiness--and continuous personal integration, where I introspect the challenges and successes in my life to improve my performance and to stay aligned with my life goals.

English
Eastern Time (US & Canada) (-05:00)
Joined February 2017
EXPERTISE
8 years experience
I first saw Eric Ries present about Lean Startup in 2010 at Business of Software. Since then, I've hosted Lean Startup Conference livestr...
I first saw Eric Ries present about Lean Startup in 2010 at Business of Software. Since then, I've hosted Lean Startup Conference livestreams, taught Lean Startup concepts, organized two Startup Weekends (and participated in several others) and used Lean Startup in my own businesses. I have a deep understanding that goes beyond the buzzwords everyone likes to throw around and can help you apply the concepts of Lean Startup to maximize your chances of success while minimizing your investment. I've also have experience with related tools like Business Model Canvas that can help you understand how to build & grow your startup.
Model-View-PresenterStartup developmentBusiness analysis
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Model-View-PresenterStartup developmentBusiness analysisMinimum viable productMarket ValidationCustomer developmentBusiness modelStartupsEntrepreneurshipLean Startup
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4 years experience | 1 endorsement
Back in 2014, I chose React as the platform to port our Java applet-based visual analytics SDK into HTML 5. Since then I've been delighte...
Back in 2014, I chose React as the platform to port our Java applet-based visual analytics SDK into HTML 5. Since then I've been delighted with how the React platform & community have grown. Since then, I have written other applications in React and continue to learn and develop more. I'm a huge advocate for component-based architectures, which React makes easy. I am building the software for my current startup using React.
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1 year experience | 1 endorsement
In 2016, I was assigned to work on a greenfield project interacting with a new Amazon API. We settled on Node as our back-end, using Reac...
In 2016, I was assigned to work on a greenfield project interacting with a new Amazon API. We settled on Node as our back-end, using React as our front-end. I built the core application, a state-based job engine, a client & server-side data model layer, a GraphQL plugin and integration middleware with our core application using ES6/ES7. Initially deployed on Docker + MySQL + Redis, we later moved to Heroku + Postgres + Redis. I love working in the same language on the client and the server, and while the asynchronous paradigm Node uses took a while to get use to, I love it now (especially now that we have async/await).
23 years experience
Proper database design is often overlooked, especially in the world of object-relationship managers (ORMs) like ActiveRecord and Sequeliz...
Proper database design is often overlooked, especially in the world of object-relationship managers (ORMs) like ActiveRecord and Sequelize. As a developer who has designed and administered databases for two decades, I know the importance of good database design on the performance and data integrity of your application, and how (and when) to work with your ORM. From handling several hundred inserts a second to optimizing queries 100-fold, I have designed and implemented data architectures for web applications. I'm not your Big Data guy, but your Web Data guy. More recently I've delved into the world of real-time key-value databases, with the software for my current startup using Firestore as the primary database. Databases I've worked with include Firestore, Postgres, MySQL, Redis, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sqlite, H2 and, of course, Microsoft Access. :-)
2 years experience
Learned Ember last year to do some contract work building an admin application to manage laundry facilities across the globe. Leveraged m...
Learned Ember last year to do some contract work building an admin application to manage laundry facilities across the globe. Leveraged my existing experience in React and single page web applications to quickly get up to speed and became the primary developer on that project.
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REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0
(3 reviews)
PJ Muller
PJ Muller
January 2021
Very senior programmer, knows what he is talking about
ronak
ronak
March 2017
Amazing mentor..very helpful
Sam Gabbay
Sam Gabbay
March 2017
Best SQL guy on here.
EMPLOYMENTS
Founder
Day Optimizer
2017-09-01-Present
Day Optimizer helps entrepreneurs and independent consultants accomplish more by converting their daily todo list into a daily schedule. ...
Day Optimizer helps entrepreneurs and independent consultants accomplish more by converting their daily todo list into a daily schedule. To learn more, visit DayOptimizer.com. The software is a mobile + desktop responsive app built on React + Firebase, using Firestore as the database. On mobile devices, the app can be viewed within the browser, or installed on the home screen as a progressive web app.
Firebase
React
Material Design
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Firebase
React
Material Design
Firebase hosting
Redux
Progressive Web Apps
Firebase functions
Firestore
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Contractor
Crunchy Bananas, LLC.
2017-03-01-Present
Developed web software for clients using Ember, Vue, AWS Lambda and Node. Provided architecture advice for the front-end and back-end des...
Developed web software for clients using Ember, Vue, AWS Lambda and Node. Provided architecture advice for the front-end and back-end designs.
Node.js
Ember.js
AWS Lambda
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Node.js
Ember.js
AWS Lambda
Vuex
Vuetify
Vue.js
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Chief Data Scientist
Teikametrics
2015-03-01-2017-01-01
Responsible for product development of new data analysis products, ongoing development of Lab Escape's visual data discovery tools and le...
Responsible for product development of new data analysis products, ongoing development of Lab Escape's visual data discovery tools and leadership in applying data analytics to improve the performance of our customers and our internal operations. Teikametrics applies the principles of stock market portfolio management to help large Amazon retailers analyze and optimize their inventory portfolios. Their premium SaaS solution helps businesses reduce stale inventory, identify profit opportunities and manage pricing, inventory & product strategy when selling through the Amazon Marketplace. I joined Teikametrics when it acquired my previous company Lab Escape.
Java
React
Redux
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Java
React
Redux
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