Joel Abshier
Senior Software Engineer at InfluxData
Columbia, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolJoel Abshier is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building scalable web and data systems, currently contributing to InfluxData’s time-series platform. Trained in both Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Missouri, he blends hardware-minded engineering rigor with practical full-stack development—from migrating legacy .NET apps to Elm/React front ends to using Elixir for large-scale data transformation. Joel has a track record of breaking monoliths into microservices, working with HashiCorp tooling, Envoy, and Docker, and he pairs technical delivery with strong people development honed by years leading youth ensembles and nonprofit teams. A self-starter who values dependable, evidence-based solutions, he brings both empathic leadership and hands-on implementation to complex systems in the IoT and analytics space.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of Missouri
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
chronograf9
openapi8
influxdb8
kapacitor8
authentication8
authorization8
gomock7
sdk7
jwt7
elixir7
mocking6
browser6
javascript6
auth5
programming-language5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
abshierjoel/tiny_maps
Jan 2024 - Aug 2025
Elixir ~M sigil for map shorthand. `~M{id, name} ~> %{id: id, name: name}`
Contributions:9 releases, 34 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year 6 months
elixir
abshierjoel/programming-elixir
May 2021 - Oct 2021
Programming Elixir > 1.6 Book
Contributions:2 reviews, 4 PRs, 31 pushes in 4 months
elixir-langelixir
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