Joel Bredeson
Staff Software Engineer at ServiceNow
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Bredeson is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Diego with a decade-plus career that spans hands-on engineering and leadership roles across startups and defense-grade systems. He co-founded Spyglass, contributing backend search and document-parsing features (including multi-spreadsheet support and Windows-specific fixes) and continues that practical open-source mindset at ServiceNow. Previously he led engineering at MNC Software, progressing from senior developer to director, and cut his teeth building satellite ground control software at L-3 Communications. Joel combines systems-level performance optimization experience with product-minded backend development, comfortable shipping pipelines that handle diverse document formats. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who translates long-term architecture goals into incremental, testable wins.
3 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (5)
tantivy10
search-engine10
rust10
cross-platform9
sql5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
spyglass-search/spyglass
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
A personal search engine: Create a searchable library from your personal documents, interests, and more!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 18 commits, 158 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Joel primarily worked on back-end development tasks, focusing on bug fixes and feature additions to the search engine project. Their contributions included fixing issues related to directory renaming on Windows, implementing a pipeline for data processing, and adding support for parsing different spreadsheet formats like .xlsx, .xls and .ods. They also worked on performance optimization and tag search functionalities within the project.
pythontauri-appindexrustcrawl
spyglass-search/talos
Oct 2023 - Dec 2023
Easily create LLM automation/agent workflows
Contributions:32 PRs, 28 pushes, 34 branches in 2 months
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