John Bauer

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Staff Billing Systems Engineer | Pittsburgh, PA

I build and operate billing and revenue platforms in Go. Currently billing systems at LiveKit; previously 1Password, Cloudflare, and Segment. I love and support open source, hate AI slop, and enjoy Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (blue belt), Muay Thai, and climbing.

resume → | play flappy bird →


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Porting Flappy Bird from Go/SDL2 to Rust and WebAssembly ( August 7, 2026 ) Notes from rewriting a 2017 Go and SDL2 Flappy Bird clone in Rust so it runs in the browser.
Rebuilt bauer.gg ( August 6, 2026 ) The hand-written Worker that served my resume as JSON is now an Astro site with a place to write.

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