Joel Hagen
Principal at The Circuit Foundry
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Hagen is a principal computer engineer with 25 years of cross-disciplinary experience in software, firmware, and analog/digital circuit design, bringing a systems-level perspective to commercial, medical, industrial, and military products. He founded Acumen Instruments and now leads The Circuit Foundry and The Chicago Firmware Factory, delivering tablet-like touchscreen products and rapid-turn embedded engineering for prototyping and production. Joel combines hands-on low-level firmware expertise with hardware design and manufacturing know-how, mentoring distributed teams of full- and part-time engineers worldwide. Known for solving integration challenges across the stack, he excels at turning complex requirements into manufacturable, field-ready systems. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, he pairs a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Iowa State with a pragmatic entrepreneurial track record.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Engineering at Iowa State University
English, GermanGithub contributions (1)
jchagen/sample_app
Dec 2010 - Sep 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 1 push in 11 years 11 months
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