Joel Birchler
Senior Software Engineering Manager, Pillar Lead at Planet
Eugene, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Birchler is a seasoned engineering leader and hands-on architect with 13+ years building and scaling high-availability systems across startups and large enterprises. He has led platform and product teams at Planet and Red Hat, drove a company-wide DevOps transformation at Symantec that enabled multi‑nine availability and dramatically faster deployments, and scaled a near real-time analytics platform to market leadership in renewable energy. Joel blends people-centered management with deep technical chops in cloud, Kubernetes, SRE, and AI/ML operations, and is known for reorganizing teams around product streams to accelerate delivery and reduce defects. Comfortable changing engines mid‑flight, he repeatedly stitches engineering, product, and business goals together—whether for M&A timelines, $140M training infrastructure, or fast-growing SaaS. Based in Eugene, Oregon, he’s also passionate about sustainability, robotics, and systems-level process improvement, bringing that interdisciplinary curiosity to solve complex operational problems.
13 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Interdisc (Computer Science Art Writing) + Communication majors, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Interdisc (Computer Science Art Writing) + Communication majors at Goshen College
Github Skills (34)
deployer9
vagrant8
infrastructure-management7
ansible7
azure-aks7
installer7
jsinterop5
aggregator4
docker-image4
azure-functions4
coreos4
java4
openjdk4
azure4
docker3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
RedHatTraining/agnosticd
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
Ansible Deployer for multiple Cloud Deployers
Contributions:14 PRs, 34 pushes, 17 branches in 27 days
ansibleinfrastructure-managementdeployer
joelbirchler/hello-bot
Mar 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 43 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 11 months
raspberry-pibotraspberryclojurescriptclojure
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