Summary
Bruce Hauman is a senior software engineer with 11 years of professional experience building full-stack and systems-level software, currently shaping product and engineering at Whimsical. He has deep hands-on expertise in ClojureScript tooling and front-end development—having created widely adopted live-development tools like Figwheel and Devcards—and has applied that same pragmatic craftsmanship to high-performance distributed systems and language compilation as a founding engineer at Red Planet Labs. Comfortable leading small teams and owning architecture, Bruce has tackled hard data problems, efficient storage of nested data, and real-time device integration from his work on a children’s fitness platform. Based in greater Asheville, he combines an academic foundation in computer science and applied math with a lifelong programmer’s curiosity, often favoring elegant, developer-friendly tooling that accelerates iteration.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, Minor Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, BS Computer Science, Minor Applied Mathematics, Computer Science at Western Carolina University