Brian Hauer
Retired at TechEmpower
Bend, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Hauer is a seasoned technology leader and retired CTO with 13 years of hands-on software engineering experience and decades of executive leadership at TechEmpower. Based in Bend, Oregon, he led engineering and product efforts that supported one of the web’s most widely referenced benchmarking projects. He remains an active contributor to open-source infrastructure, helping fix correctness issues, simplify Java servlets, and modernize installer scripts in the prominent TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks repo. Brian combines low-level code fixes—database ID handling and language-specific duration bugs—with strategic architecture and platform thinking. A Loyola Marymount Computer Science graduate, he blends practical coding chops with long-term stewardship of developer-facing systems. Even in retirement he stays engaged in the community, quietly improving widely used tooling behind the scenes.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Loyola Marymount University
Github Skills (15)
application-framework10
javas10
app-framework10
web-framework10
benchmarking10
benchmark10
frameworkbenchmarks10
microbenchmark10
benchmarkjs10
java10
python9
go9
mongodb-database8
sql8
mongodb8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks
Apr 2013 - Mar 2018
Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:122 commits, 3 pushes, 160 comments in 5 years
Contributions summary:Brian contributed to the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project by addressing several issues related to code correctness and project setup. They corrected a content type in a Java file and fixed a duration issue in a Python script. Furthermore, the user updated Go versions across multiple installer scripts and simplified try blocks in a Java servlet. Additionally, the user added identity columns to the database and adjusted the ID ranges in another file.
techempowerframeworkbenchmarkperformancebenchmarks
TechEmpower/TFB-Documentation
Mar 2015 - May 2017
Documentation for the Framework Benchmarks project
Contributions:8 PRs, 13 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 2 months
textlintbenchmarkingbenchmarkbenchmarksnette
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