Summary
Joel Dmello is an engineering leader and AI/ML practitioner with two decades of experience scaling teams and shipping large-scale distributed systems that drive measurable revenue impact. He has led ML and infrastructure efforts at Amazon and Twilio—delivering global e-commerce features that expanded coverage 200% YoY and launching an AI-powered customer engagement product projected to generate $60M+ ARR. As a founder and head of product & engineering at an AI-first commerce startup, he translated LLMs, vision, and agentic workflows into consumer-facing discovery and shopping experiences. Joel combines deep technical fluency (Spark, SageMaker, low-latency data pipelines) with cross-functional execution and hiring rigor (former Amazon Bar Raiser), and holds an Executive MBA from Columbia focused on scaling innovation. Based in Jersey City, he pairs pragmatic engineering leadership with a creative side—he’s an avid photographer and home cook who codes in Java.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Computer Science, Masters in Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Columbia Business School
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology at University of Mumbai