Joel Hanson
Software Engineer at IBM
Kerala, India
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Top SchoolJoel Hanson is a pragmatic software engineer from Kerala with a decade of experience building cloud-native systems, full-stack applications, and AI-driven automation. At IBM he architected Event Streams infrastructure that processes billions of events with 99.9% uptime, cut Kafka cluster deployment time by 90%, and delivered production-grade Kafka Connectors with exactly-once semantics and 95% test coverage. Previously he led ML-powered hiring automation at impress.ai that reduced candidate assessment time from weeks to hours and boosted qualified applicant yield, and he has hands-on experience implementing CI/CD and secure payment integrations for commercial platforms. Joel combines systems-level thinking (Kafka, Kubernetes, Jenkins) with practical product impact—measurable speedups, reliability gains, and mentoring of early-career engineers. He is comfortable contributing to open-source ecosystems and improving developer tooling, evidenced by work on Strimzi integration and a kubectl plugin that raised user adoption.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at University of Calicut
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Github Skills (200)
data-stream10
transformers10
ibm-mq10
apache-spark10
language-model10
postgresql10
messaging10
python10
databases10
model-management10
sink10
semantic-search10
gpt4all10
deep-learning10
visual-studio10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Joel-hanson/large-file-processor
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:36 commits in 4 days
Joel-hanson/kafka-connect-mq-source
Mar 2023 - Dec 2024
This repository contains a Kafka Connect source connector for copying data from IBM MQ into Apache Kafka.
Contributions:4 PRs, 57 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 9 months
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