Joel Barker is a pragmatic technology leader and current Chief Technology Officer with 11 years of progressive experience turning troubled tech, teams, and operations into reliable delivery engines. He has repeatedly stepped into senior IT and CTO roles across healthcare and services firms—most recently rising through leadership at OneShare Health—to stabilize systems and accelerate product-focused engineering. Comfortable moving between hands-on software development and high-level strategy, Joel has led consulting and in-house teams through architecture, dev-management, and operational improvement engagements. Based in Vienna with a career spanning U.S. markets, he brings a blend of legal training and tactical security/controls experience (including PC 832 firearms/arrest training) that informs disciplined, auditable technology practices. Colleagues rely on him to find the root cause of chronic issues and implement pragmatic, long-lasting fixes rather than quick workarounds.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Law (JD), Doctor of Law (JD) at Oak Brook College of Law
PC 832 Arrest & Control Firearms, PC 832 Arrest & Control Firearms at Westec Corrections Officer Academy
Contributions:5 releases, 64 commits, 37 PRs in 4 years 2 months
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