Summary
Joel Byler is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of professional experience building enterprise software and improving user experience through pragmatic, joyful product design. He has deep hands-on expertise in Ruby, Elixir, Java, and C#, and has progressed from senior engineering roles to technical leadership at companies like CoverMyMeds and now Avandra Imaging. Joel is fluent in Agile practices and known for mentoring teams, driving architecture decisions, and delivering reliable systems at scale. Active in the Cleveland tech community as a longtime organizer of the Cleveland Ruby Brigade, he blends open collaboration with pragmatic engineering. His background includes a BS in Computer Science from Kent State and a track record of moving systems forward while keeping developer and customer experience front and center.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Kent State University