Summary
CJ Joulain is a Quality and Automation Engineer in San Francisco with a decade of experience blending software quality, support engineering, and media-driven storytelling. Currently at BridgeCare, CJ designs and implements test automation and QA processes informed by hands-on roles at Tuft & Needle, npm, Roostify, and Roostify-adjacent support work that included Ruby/Rails, SQL, Heroku, and AWS. Their background in media studies and nonprofit/radio production gives them a rare cross-disciplinary lens: they translate user narratives and operational needs into rigorous, user-focused test strategies. A practiced collaborator, CJ has bridged product, DevOps, and client-facing teams to resolve production issues and ship pragmatic tooling. Outside engineering, they produce and board-operate film programming—bringing a storyteller’s sensitivity to usability and communications in technical solutions.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Language and Literature/Letters, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Language and Literature/Letters at Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Master of Arts (M.A.), Media Studies (Film History), Master of Arts (M.A.), Media Studies (Film History) at University of California, Irvine
English, Spanish