Joel Hulen is a Delivery Solutions Architect with 10+ years of experience building cloud-native, data and AI-driven platforms, currently at Databricks and co-founding Tahubu to advise on AI, data, and cloud strategy. He has a long track record as a hands-on engineering leader—VP of Engineering at Baseline and Senior Cloud Solutions Architect at Solliance—who combines architecture, training, and delivery across Fortune 100 engagements. Joel’s background spans full-stack and IoT development, enterprise migrations, and developer tooling, and he contributes to open-source projects (notably CI/CD and build automation for the widely used Polly .NET resilience library). Based in Chesapeake, VA, he’s known for translating complex requirements into scalable, secure systems and for creating practical training and reference guides that help teams adopt modern data and AI practices.
10 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Great Bridge High School
Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at Tidewater Community College
HS, College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program, HS, College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program at Oaktree Academy
Polly is a .NET resilience and transient-fault-handling library that allows developers to express policies such as Retry, Circuit Breaker, Timeout, Bulkhead Isolation, and Fallback in a fluent and thread-safe manner. From version 6.0.1, Polly targets .NET Standard 1.1 and 2.0+.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
Contributions:19 releases, 31 reviews, 143 commits in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Joel's contributions primarily focused on build automation and CI/CD pipeline modifications. They updated the build process using Cake script to include .NET 4.0 Async-specific NuGet package elements and fixed related package issues. Further, the user made updates to the repository by modifying the changelog link. These changes suggest a focus on build configuration, release management, and infrastructure improvements.
This repo contains the code for allReady, an open-source solution focused on increasing awareness, efficiency and impact of preparedness campaigns as they are delivered by humanitarian and disaster response organizations in local communities.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:32 commits, 16 PRs, 40 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Joel primarily focused on front-end development, refactoring and styling the application's user interface. This included modifications to the layout, navigation menu, and login partial views. The commits also include additions of a WYSIWYG editor to the campaign landing page, and a new model for campaign impact. Furthermore, the user contributed to database migrations and added file upload functionality.
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Joel Hulen - Delivery Solutions Architect at Tahubu