Joel Dollarhide
Senior Software Engineer at Appgate
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Dollarhide is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient SaaS and high-traffic systems across backend, infrastructure, and occasional frontend work. He has driven migrations from monoliths to serverless and microservice architectures, leveraging Go, Node, PHP, AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Postgres, and MongoDB to deliver measurable product improvements. At companies from Passport to PriceSpider and Botkeeper he led performance optimizations, event-driven designs, and realtime features while mentoring cross-functional teams and guiding architecture decisions. Joel also contributes to the Homebrew cask ecosystem, keeping popular developer tooling definitions up to date—an indication of his attention to detail and ecosystem-minded approach. Based in Charlotte, NC, he balances shipping production features with infrastructure and observability improvements, and enjoys tackling legacy modernization and operational bottlenecks.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at The University of Toledo
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Github Skills (10)
version-control10
homebrew10
software-packaging10
homebrew-cask10
github9
macos8
typescript6
google-cloud-functions6
javascript6
firebase6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/homebrew-cask-versions
Jan 2017 - Nov 2017
💀 Alternate versions of Casks (deprecated)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 1 comment in 10 months
Contributions summary:Joel primarily contributes to maintaining and updating cask definitions within the Homebrew-cask-versions repository. They update existing cask files for applications like Kodi, Atom Beta, and Firefox Developer Edition to reflect the latest versions. These updates involve changing version numbers, SHA256 checksums, and URLs to point to the current downloadable files. The user demonstrates proficiency in modifying cask definitions and ensuring their accuracy.
caskscaskhomebrewalternate
jdollar/dot-zsh
Mar 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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