Christopher Joel
Sebastopol, California, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Joel is a seasoned front-end engineer and startup CTO with 13 years of experience building web platform primitives, user-facing products, and open-source systems. He helped shape modern Web Components at Google—contributing to Lit, Polymer, YouTube’s web UI and widely used projects like Model Viewer—and later co-founded Subconscious to create Noosphere, a permissionless protocol for decentralized, user-owned collaborative thinking. Comfortable shipping production-grade UIs, performance tooling, and platform-level libraries, he has led teams at startups and enterprises alike and authored frameworks deployed across millions of pages. Based in Sebastopol, he pairs deep standards-era technical expertise with an entrepreneur’s instinct for durable, open-source design and leaves a public code legacy even where companies have closed.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
DigiPen Institute of Technology
Japanese
Stackoverflow
799reputation
85kreached
8answers
2questions
jquery-ui
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
threejs10
displays10
material-you10
hyper10
http-client10
automation10
component-library10
svg10
pitch10
bundler10
3d10
custom-element10
portable10
gltf10
gwt10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
PolymerLabs/promise-polyfill
Mar 2015 - Mar 2018
Lightweight promise polyfill for the browser and node. A+ Compliant
Contributions:4 releases, 8 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years
browserpolyfillcompliantjavascriptpromise-polyfill
subconsciousnetwork/noosphere
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Noosphere is a protocol for thought; let's discover it together!
Contributions:16 releases, 568 reviews, 88 commits in 6 months
discoverpkiucanprotocolp2p
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