Joel Brubaker
Founding Engineer at Onlook (YC W25)
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolJoel Brubaker is a founding engineer and seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling product-driven engineering teams and SaaS platforms. He combines hands-on full-stack craft—from microservices and data pipelines to polished frontend experiences—with proven operational chops in AWS/GCP, having reduced reporting times from days to seconds and sped feature turnaround through disciplined processes. Joel has led engineering teams as Head of Engineering and Principal Engineer, shipped migrations and integrated POS/fitness platforms, and now focuses on bringing AI leverage to design teams to eliminate "vibe-coded" slop. Based in San Diego and grounded in a Media Studies BA from UC Berkeley, he blends product intuition with technical rigor and a knack for turning messy requirements into automated, auditable systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Media Studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Media Studies at University of California, Berkeley
English
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Github Skills (114)
docker-container10
time-travel10
javascript10
laravel10
monorepo10
vuex10
build-system10
progressive10
vue10
php10
state-management10
frontend10
docker-compose9
rapid9
directive9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
thebrubaker/vue-lantern
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:109 pushes, 11 branches in 1 month
thebrubaker/vue-element-queries
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
A Vue directive for using element queries to build responsive components.
Contributions:23 commits, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
mixinsvue-directivedirectivevuejs2vue
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