Will Lauer
Principal Engineer at Aviatrix
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolWill Lauer is a Principal Engineer and seasoned software architect with over 30 years of experience building high-performance reporting and analytics systems for both startups and large enterprises. He has led major migrations and architected data platforms at Yahoo—introducing Apache Druid, Datasketches, and driving cloud and data mesh transformations—while recently focusing on data pipelines and reporting SaaS at Aviatrix. Known for turning thousands of bespoke jobs into streamlined, maintainable pipelines, he combines hands-on backend development, performance tuning, and infrastructure design with strong leadership across distributed teams. Comfortable across the full delivery lifecycle, he has deep expertise in reporting datamarts, custom UDFs, and operationalizing analytics at scale. Based in Champaign, Illinois, he pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with a long track record of solving thorny data and performance problems that teams often thought were unavoidable.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Brown University
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Github Skills (59)
restful-api10
eclipse-plugin10
databases10
maven-plugin10
analytics10
webservice10
java10
big-data-analytics10
sql10
eclipse10
high-performance10
sketch10
druid10
async9
apache9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
will-lauer/eclipseSetup
Jul 2016 - Mar 2025
Will's custom eclipse configuration
Contributions:3 PRs, 142 pushes, 5 branches in 8 years 9 months
configeclipse
will-lauer/druid
Feb 2016 - Aug 2021
Column oriented distributed data store ideal for powering interactive applications
Contributions:16 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 6 months
idealdata-storedatabasecolumn-orienteddistributed
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