Joel Jeske
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Coinbase
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJoel Jeske is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience focused on developer infrastructure and productivity, currently at Coinbase after recent senior roles at Figma and Robinhood. He has led large developer-experience organizations (up to 55 people supporting 1,000 engineers), reducing friction across the SDLC through tooling, build system modernization, and on-demand dev environments. Joel has a track record of measurable impact—700% faster builds via Bazel remote execution and doubling new-hire productivity—paired with hands-on delivery from frontend React toolkits to Kubernetes-hosted internal platforms. A mentor and people leader, he blends deep technical craft with operational rigor to scale teams and systems. Based in Austin, he brings a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to improving developer velocity and ship confidence.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Computer Science & Engineering, B.S Computer Science & Engineering at LeTourneau University
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Github Skills (200)
multiple-browsers10
testing10
automation10
linter10
firefox10
phabricator10
svn10
bazel10
fetch10
nodejs10
svelte10
cordova10
user-interface10
stale-while-revalidate10
frontend10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
joeljeske/bazel-watcher
Jun 2020 - Nov 2023
Tools for building Bazel targets when source files change.
Contributions:7 releases, 2 PRs, 50 pushes in 3 years 5 months
bazelstarlarktargetsbazel-rulessource-files
joeljeske/karma-parallel
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
A Karma JS Framework to support sharding tests to run in parallel across multiple browsers
Contributions:11 releases, 67 commits, 18 PRs in 10 months
js-frameworkmultiple-browsersshardingkarmakarma-parallel
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