Tim Haak
Founder at Mile6
Greater Philadelphia United States
Summary
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SeniorTim Haak is an experienced founder and web technology veteran who launched Mile6 after an early start building web pages in 1996 and turning a Penn State web internship into a full-time role by 2000. He leads a growing, U.S.-distributed digital product agency of ~20 designers, engineers, and strategists with a quality-first, user-centric approach that prioritizes core strengths over dilution. Though he no longer codes day-to-day, Tim retains deep technical fluency—having hands-on experience with backend and DevOps work, including contributions to the Wave SaaS starter kit to improve Docker builds, proxy configuration, and environment handling. His career is rooted in pragmatic entrepreneurship: scaling a small local web practice into a sustainable agency while keeping client service and community collaboration central. Based in Greater Philadelphia, he blends nostalgia for internet history with modern engineering practices and a talent for surrounding himself with brilliant teammates. An "accidental entrepreneur," he still keeps a Win95 VM to remind him how far web tech has come.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (14)
php10
docker10
laravel10
devops10
dockers10
laravel-mix10
database9
environment-variables9
database-connection9
server-configuration9
databases9
redis7
mysql7
tailwindcss4
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
thedevdojo/wave
May 2021 - May 2021
Wave - The Software as a Service Starter Kit, designed to help you build the SAAS of your dreams 🚀 💰
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on configuring and refining the application's backend infrastructure and deployment process. They updated the database configuration to align with Laravel's defaults and added support for environment variables. They also published configuration for trusted proxies, essential for running the application behind a proxy, and added Docker build commands. Furthermore, the user modified the Docker build scripts to improve image names.
tailwindcssvoyagerphpwaveas-a-service
haakco/deploying-laravel-app-docker-ubuntu-php-lv
May 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:33 commits, 12 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year
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