John Haller
Founder Manager Lead Engineer at PortableApps.com
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Haller is a founder and lead engineer with over two decades of experience building and scaling consumer-focused software, best known for creating PortableApps.com and growing it to millions of users and over a billion downloads. He combines hands-on full‑stack development (JavaScript, Python, PHP, SQL, .NET) with product leadership, managing international teams of developers and translators across distributed tooling like GitHub and Slack. Comfortable shipping everything from launch menus and updaters to CMS-driven communities, he pairs technical craftsmanship with strong communication and empathetic people management. His background includes building high‑volume ecommerce and event platforms, enterprise web frameworks, and extensive technical documentation (500+ pages). Based in New York, he blends entrepreneurial grit with a long track record of press-recognized software and community outreach. Less obvious: he routinely resolves interpersonal and directional conflicts to keep volunteer and professional contributors aligned and productive.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Binghamton University
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Github Skills (149)
messenger10
telegram10
thor10
launcher10
cut10
txt10
torrent10
audio10
ffmpeg10
knife10
installer10
openexr10
editing10
ini10
mp410
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
PortableApps/Launcher
Sep 2017 - Feb 2025
The PortableApps.com Launcher™ allows developers, publishers and even technical end-user to portablize apps in PortableApps.com Format without needing to write any code.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 7 years 6 months
portableappsend-userwindowsraycastlinux
PortableApps/SuiteUkraine
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:15 releases, 11 commits, 10 pushes in 9 months
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