Joel Carter
Lead XYO Protocol Engineer
Florida, United States
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Top SchoolJoel Carter is a pragmatic, emotionally intelligent engineering leader and Lead XYO Protocol Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience delivering hardware-to-cloud systems. He combines full-stack fluency—from VHDL and embedded firmware to Rust, Go-style microservices, and modern cloud-native tooling—with a track record of architecting scalable, production-proven platforms using Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, and multi-cloud infrastructure. Known for multiplying team effectiveness through mentorship, clear communication, and humor, he has led migrations of monoliths to microservices, built low-latency distributed systems, and productized IoT devices and companion UIs. His background in hardware design, FPGA/RTOS development, and security gives him uncommon depth when bridging physical and digital systems—an asset for XYO’s blockchain and location-proofing work. Joel is also a rapid polyglot who learns new languages and paradigms on demand, enabling pragmatic, cost-effective architectures that support both immediate business goals and long-term product pivots.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude at Capitol College
English
Stackoverflow
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npm
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Github Skills (125)
visual-studio10
editor10
kubernetes10
container10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
docker10
microsoft10
aws10
linux9
helm9
linode9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
XYOracleNetwork/api-location.diviner.xyo.network-express
Feb 2022 - Jun 2022
API/Implementation of Location Diviner
Contributions:62 commits, 88 PRs, 230 pushes in 3 months
location-servicesapilocationmultiuser
XYOracleNetwork/plugins
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:85 PRs, 592 pushes, 90 branches in 1 year 2 months
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