John Hoerr
Principal Software Engineer at JBS Custom Software Solutions
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Hoerr is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience designing and delivering cloud-native .NET/React applications and architectures, currently based in Austin, Texas. He combines hands-on full-stack development with product-facing work—scoping requirements with owners, shaping UX with designers, and partnering with DevOps to run resilient Azure platforms. His recent projects include architecting an Azure Functions delivery ordering service for a major restaurant chain and modernizing POS/admin systems for a Fortune 500 retailer. As CTO of a poultry-health analytics startup acquired by Cargill, he brought ML-adjacent domain insight to production software, and earlier led university-wide SaaS and cloud initiatives at Indiana University. An active OSS contributor, he’s fixed core behaviors in .NET SDKs and improved C# learning Koans, showing attention to API reliability and developer experience. He’s known for shipping fast under tight timelines—delivering an MVP for a veterinary practice management system in 12 months—while mentoring senior engineers and streamlining delivery processes.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github contributions (5)
box/box-windows-sdk-v2
Mar 2014 - Apr 2014
Windows SDK for v2 of the Box API. The SDK is built upon .NET Framework 4.5
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / API Developer
Back-end Developer / API DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 23 days
Contributions summary:John focused on improving the functionality and reliability of the Box API SDK for Windows. Their contributions included fixing endpoint URIs for file deletes, adding default headers to requests, and demonstrating the handling of compressed content. Furthermore, the user addressed an issue related to the automatic decompression of response content, adding the necessary configuration in the code and adding the integration test for the same. They also implemented a new method to fetch enterprise users data.
box-apidotnetwindows-sdk
DotNetKoans/DotNetKoans
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
A set of Koans to teach the C# language on .NET
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality and accuracy of the C# Koans by addressing test failures and fixing code typos. The user implemented changes to improve the reporting of test failures and improve code formatting. Their work involved modifying C# code within the Koans, specifically targeting areas related to string manipulation and generic containers to enhance learning and code clarity.
csharpdotnetkoans
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