Bob Lauer
Full Stack Engineer at ClassDojo
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolBob Lauer is a full-stack engineer with 13 years of experience who builds and shapes web platforms from the infrastructure layer to the user interface. As BloomTech’s first hire he built the engineering team and core systems, making high-impact architectural decisions while remaining hands-on with the codebase. He’s experienced across TypeScript/Node, React/Next/Remix, GraphQL/REST, Postgres and messaging systems like Kafka, and has a track record of instilling engineering discipline—introducing testing practices and mentoring new hires. An active contributor to tooling that smooths server-side React rendering, he blends pragmatic engineering with a teacher’s mindset and thrives in fast-growth startup environments. Now based in Chicago, he continues to ship production systems and help teams avoid common scaling mistakes.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Illinois Wesleyan University
Github Skills (8)
babel610
babeljs10
javascript10
expressjs10
react10
jsx10
babel-core10
nodejs9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
reactjs/express-react-views
Apr 2015 - May 2015
This is an Express view engine which renders React components on server. It renders static markup and *does not* support mounting those views on the client.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Bob primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of an Express view engine for React components. Their contributions include migrating from `node-jsx` to Babel for JSX transformation, implementing basic tests to validate component rendering, and refactoring the code to dynamically register Babel based on the view path. Furthermore, the user updated example applications to reflect the changes, and refined the codebase to adhere to React documentation best practices.
reactview-enginejavascriptexpresson-server
boblauer/mongoose-dateonly
Feb 2015 - May 2020
Provides mongoose support for dates only, typically to avoid timezone issues.
Contributions:1 release, 32 commits, 6 PRs in 5 years 4 months
mongoose-pluginmongomongoosejsnodejsavoid
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