Izaak Lauer
Software Engineer at Clerk.com
Hancock, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolIzaak Lauer is a software engineer with 10 years of experience designing and operating large-scale, secure distributed systems across retail, political technology, and cloud infrastructure. He has led teams to build mission-critical platforms—from Target’s edge compute and clustered schedulers to the Biden campaign’s CI/CD, secrets, and a peer-to-peer texting system that sent millions of messages. Deeply full‑stack, he ships React frontends and backends in Go, Python, Groovy, and Node.js, and has strong infrastructure pedigree running app platforms on AWS and multi-cluster Kubernetes environments. At HashiCorp he helped rearchitect Waypoint for platform engineers and contributed to refactoring and hardening the project’s backend and DevOps workflows. Comfortable both leading product-facing initiatives and diving into refactors, testing, and race‑condition fixes, he blends systems design with hands‑on execution. Based in Hancock, Michigan, he pairs mechanical engineering roots with pragmatic software craftsmanship to solve high‑availability, high-scale problems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Technological University
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Github Skills (10)
go10
refactoring10
refactor10
testing9
cicd8
accessibility6
simulink6
error-handling6
ios6
matlab6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/waypoint
May 2021 - Jan 2023
A tool to build, deploy, and release any application on any platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:524 reviews, 1072 commits, 345 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Izaak primarily worked on refactoring the project and removing dependencies, specifically the Netlify plugin and related references. They contributed by removing code and references, including icons and documentation from the website and codebase. Further, they also addressed a race condition and implemented testing and a few minor additions. The user shows skills in testing, refactoring and code cleanup.
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hashicorp/waypoint-helm
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
Helm chart to install Waypoint and other associated components.
Contributions:7 reviews, 27 commits, 16 PRs in 11 months
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