Johann Payer
Co-Founder at Deck AI
College Park, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohann Payer is a software engineer and startup founder with nine years of hands-on experience building web and game-focused applications. As Co-Founder and CEO of Deck AI, he blends product leadership with practical engineering across web development, machine learning, and interactive simulations. His background includes creating gamified healthcare logistics simulations in Unity at Johns Hopkins APL, demonstrating an ability to translate complex domain requirements into engaging, usable software. Trained in computer science at the University of Maryland, he pairs academic fundamentals with entrepreneurial grit. Based in College Park, Maryland, Johann favors projects that sit at the intersection of games and applied AI, bringing a creator’s curiosity to both prototypes and scalable products. He’s equally comfortable shipping frontend experiences and prototyping ML-driven features that make data actionable.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of MarylandHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Centennial High School
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Github Skills (39)
date-formatting10
datetime10
deploying10
momentjs10
component-library10
api10
datepicker10
dayjs10
timestamp10
javascript9
webgl9
machine-learning9
typescript9
react9
gpu-acceleration8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
johannpayer/holidays
Dec 2020 - Jul 2022
A fun holiday countdown full of interactive particles.
Contributions:2 PRs, 51 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 7 months
javascriptcountdownparticlesholiday-countdown
flamesdev/data-visualizer
Feb 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:97 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 2 years 2 months
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