Joe Lauer
Founder And CEO at Fizzed
Birmingham, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolJoe Lauer is a serial founder and engineering leader with 15+ years of hands-on experience building high-performance teams and scalable systems across mobile, payments, financial, and big data domains. He founded and exited multiple companies—including Simplewire (acquired 2006), Cloudhopper (acquired by Twitter 2010), and Greenback (acquired by Dext 2021)—and led Twitter’s mobile engineering team that delivered a uniquely reliable, globally distributed notification platform. Comfortable toggling between CEO duties and deep engineering work, Joe contributes to open-source Java projects (notably SMPP, a Java template engine, and JCEF integrations) and has a knack for operationalizing mission-critical systems with zero-downtime pedigrees. Based in Michigan, he combines product intuition with low-level technical chops—illustrated by contributions that span backend protocol stability, template compilation, and browser-embedded PDF printing.
15 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Computer Science Engineering, BSE Computer Science Engineering at University of Michigan
Github Skills (23)
smpp10
back-end-development10
plugin-development10
testing10
css10
browser10
template-engine10
java10
javas10
maven10
html10
java-compiler10
debug9
c-language9
debugging9
Programming languages (10)
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
Back-end DeveloperContributions: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
Front-end DeveloperContributions: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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