Joe Lauer

Birmingham, Michigan, United States

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Summary

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Rockstar

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Joe Lauer is a serial founder and product leader based in Birmingham, Michigan, currently Director of Commerce Product at Dext with 20+ years of engineering and operational experience. He founded three startups that were acquired—Simplewire (to Qpass), Cloudhopper (to Twitter) and Greenback (to Dext)—and has a track record of building high-performance teams in both public and private companies. At Twitter he led the mobile engineering team behind a global notification platform notable for maintaining 100% uptime across years of hypergrowth. Technically hands-on, Joe contributes to open-source Java and front-end projects—from SMPP and Java template engines to the Java Chromium Embedded Framework where he implemented print-to-PDF integration—demonstrating a rare ability to bridge low-level native work and product-facing UI. Appointed Commissioner for Michigan’s 21st Century Economy, he pairs startup grit and product craftsmanship with strategic economic and commercialization insight.

15 years of coding experience

27 years of employment as a software developer

BSE, Computer Science Engineering, Cum Laude, BSE, Computer Science Engineering, Cum Laude at University of Michigan

Github Skills (25)

smpp10

back-end-development10

testing10

plugin-development10

css10

maven310

browser10

template-engine10

java10

javas10

maven10

html10

java-compiler10

debug9

c-language9

Programming languages (10)

TypeScriptJavaShellC++CJavaScriptGoHTML

Github contributions (5)

fizzed/rocker

Mar 2015 - Jan 2023

Java 8 optimized, memory efficient, speedy template engine producing statically typed, plain java objects

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:2 releases, 14 reviews, 332 commits in 7 years 11 months

Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the development of the Rocker template engine. Their work focused on implementing features such as direct template compilation, integrating Java code generation, and supporting null-safe operations. They also made improvements to template parsing and testing capabilities, along with enhancements to the build and compilation process. The user's commits demonstrate a strong understanding of Java-based template engines.

template-enginememorystatically-typedtemplatingjava-8

fizzed/font-mfizz

Jul 2013 - Oct 2017

Font Mfizz - Vector Icons for Technology and Software Geeks

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:12 releases, 88 commits, 16 PRs in 4 years 3 months

Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the visual aspects of the "font-mfizz" repository, which is a vector icon library. Their commits focused on adding and updating the preview HTML file, which displays the available icons. They modified the stylesheet and preview file to incorporate new icons, indicating involvement in the UI and presentation of the icon set. The commits reflect a focus on maintaining and enhancing the visual representation and usability of the icon library.

octiconsvector-iconsgoogle-fontssvgbranding

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