Joel Holsteen
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Holsteen is a Staff Software Engineer with 10 years of full‑stack and distributed systems experience, currently building a better Meet experience at Google while also founding Alethi. He has led large architecture shifts—most recently overhauling Panther’s search from SQL to text-based search and owning normalization/enrichment pipelines including entity resolution for customer logs. Joel combines hands-on implementation (notably strong in Go and cloud data pipelines) with technical leadership, mentoring engineers and driving cross-organizational buy-in for platform changes. His background includes modernizing Drive’s sharing model and executing zero-downtime cloud migrations, demonstrating a pragmatic focus on reliability and scalability. Based in the Raleigh-Durham area and grounded in a CS degree from UIUC, he brings startup founder instincts to product-focused engineering challenges. An underrated strength is his ability to translate messy operational data into approachable, queryable systems that power product features.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (56)
parser10
shutdown10
language-server10
go-application10
tui9
lucene9
htmx9
server-side-rendering9
go9
elasticsearch-client9
elasticsearch8
golang8
driver7
goroutine7
html7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
grindlemire/go-lucene
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
A pure go lucene parser with no dependencies.
Contributions:71 commits, 37 PRs, 111 pushes in 1 month
goluceneparsersearch
grindlemire/dotfiles
Sep 2016 - May 2026
My personal dotfiles
Contributions:4 PRs, 68 pushes, 9 branches in 9 years 10 months
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