Joel Longtine is a seasoned infrastructure and site reliability leader with 13 years of experience building and operating production systems, now founder of Apokalypsis Consulting and Senior Director of Infrastructure at Gloo. He brings deep hands-on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, CloudFormation, Docker, and DevOps culture, having led containerization of legacy Rails apps and architected a 100-service microservices platform. An active open-source contributor, Joel made substantial backend and infra contributions to the popular Dagger project, improving private repo support, task execution, and filesystem tooling. His background spans startups to enterprise, including HIPAA and HITRUST work in healthcare where he tackled complex, regulated systems and data pipelines. Trained as a computer scientist with a physics minor from Colorado School of Mines, he pairs rigorous systems thinking with practical engineering leadership. Outside work he blends curiosity and balance as a family man and mindful explorer of mind and body, which informs his collaborative, long-term approach to team and platform health.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Computer Science, Physics Minor, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science, Physics Minor at Colorado School of Mines
Contributions:122 reviews, 135 commits, 49 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Joel primarily contributed to the backend and infrastructure aspects of the Dagger project. Their work involved implementing features related to private repositories and custom Git providers, modifying core modules for parsing and handling different repository types. They also made changes to the build and task execution engine, including updates to the file system and task management, and refactored and cleaned up existing code. Furthermore, the user contributed to the addition of new tasks, like `WriteFile` and `Copy`, and other internal refactoring.
Contributions:13 releases, 39 commits, 6 PRs in 1 month
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