# Izaak Lauer > Software Engineer Location: Hancock, Michigan, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/izaak I am an expert in architecting and building scalable, secure, reliable distributed systems. I have led engineering teams in multiple industries to build large mission-critical production systems. I have full stack experience building frontends in React/Javascript and backends in Go, Python, Groovy, and NodeJS. I have deep infrastructure experience, building an app platform for the Biden for President campaign on AWS, and Target's edge and core infrastructure. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Clerk.com Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 With a primary focus on the organizations team, I worked to improve Clerk's compatibility with enterprises, including introducing per-organization SAML and OIDC connections and introducing a new open single sign-in specification: https://easie.dev/. ### Staff Software Engineer @ HashiCorp Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 As a member of the Waypoint leadership team, I helped re-envision Waypoint as a tool for platform engineers to build internal developer platforms, and led an engineering squad to rearchitect the project. ### Seinor Software Engineer II @ HashiCorp Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Led a team to implement a managed SaaS product, HCP Waypoint. ### Senior Software Engineer @ HashiCorp Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 As a member of the Waypoint core development team, I wrote RFCs and PRDs, gave public talks and demos, and implemented or improved server APIs, CLI commands, plugins, internal tools, core frameworks, tests, and docs. ### Engineering Lead @ Biden for President Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States I led and managed a team of engineers through the general election, building technology to power organizing, analytics, compliance, and research. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Biden for President Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Philadelphia, PA I was the campaign's first software engineer, and had a hand in most technical projects. Highlights: - Architected, built, and maintained core engineering infrastructure including CI/CD, deployment tooling, secrets and config management, application monitoring, permissions management, and public auth n/z. - Architected, built, and maintained a peer-to-peer texting application, used by thousands of volunteers to send over 18 million texts. - Architected, built, and maintained a media comprehension and search platform that provided insights on thousands of documents and videos. ### Lead Engineer @ Target Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Minneapolis, Minnesota I led a team of engineers to build a compute platform, with Docker containers as the deployment artifact and qemu-kvm VMs as the runtime. It uses hundreds of bare-metal nodes to run tens of thousands of workloads. I architected and built a highly available clustered scheduler and designed algorithms for workload placement to optimize for resource availability and workload resiliency. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Target Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Minneapolis, Minnesota - Built a compute platform for the target stores, that allowed developers to quickly and consistently deploy containerized apps to thousands of retail edge endpoints. For more details, see Dan Wood's description of the platform: https://tech.target.com/infrastructure/2018/06/20/enter-unimatrix.html - Built an EMV (chip-and-pin) payment processing engine for the target registers. ### Engineer @ Target Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Minneapolis, Minnesota - Built and maintained a datacenter HA Kubernetes environment environment consisting of multiple clusters for hundreds of internal teams. Configured overlay networking, RBAC, workload resource monitoring, and onboarding practices. Developed an immutable deployment pattern for master and worker nodes. - Maintained the Spinnaker continuous delivery platform for AWS and GCP, and expanded it to deploy to datacenter and cloud Kubernetes environments. ### Engineering Services Internship @ ThermoAnalytics Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Houghton, MI • Working with Research team to build a software tool to automate validation of the Human Thermal simulation module. I adopted a large existing VBA codebase, added many features, and applied object oriented practices to improve reliability. • Working with Engineering Services team to create detailed thermal and Infrared models. I created a detailed thermal models of various military vehicles, including accurate aerodynamic and engine heating. I also developed an ECMA script to dynamically vary the boundary conditions based on user defined velocity and altitude curves. ### Engineering Fundamentals Learning Center Coordinator @ Michigan Technological University Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Houghton, MI Responsibilities include: -Training coaches on material and teching techniques. -Answering student and coach questions on class material. -Supervising the day-to-day learning center. ### Co-op, Engine Peripherals Design Engineer @ Mercury Marine Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Fond du Lac, WI Worked in Product Development and Engineering to design and build testing fixtures, perform testing, analyze data and create test reports for peripheral components, including fuel injectors, intake and exhaust manifolds, various fuel fittings, cam covers, PCV Valves, and lubricant reservoirs. ### TA, Engineering Modeling and Design @ Michigan Technological University Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Houghton, MI Assisted in teaching fundamentals of engineering design, including: NX 7.5 modeling, drafting, and assemblies; and Matlab programming. ### Intern, R&D Design Engineer @ McNeilus Truck and Manufacturing, Inc. Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Dodge Center, MN Worked in New Product Development with senior designers to model and test new components and configurations for Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) and Hybrid Electric fuel systems. ### TA, Engineering Analysis and Problem Solving @ Michigan Technological University Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Assisted in teaching fundamentals of Engineering Problem Solving, including detail drawings, engineering statistics, and mathematical modeling. ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering Michigan Technological University Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/izaaklauer - Website: https://izaaklauer.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/izaak JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/izaak/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22