Joel Lopes
Staff Software Engineer at Meta
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Lopes is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver highly reliable, scalable, and secure distributed systems for millions of users. Currently at Cruise after a long tenure as a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft and earlier work at Google, he specializes in designing deployment solutions for air-gapped, isolated, and government cloud environments. Joel combines hands-on architecture and implementation with organizational process improvements and mentoring of engineering managers to raise team delivery and product quality. He has a strong academic foundation with an M.S. in Computer Science and early research experience in distributed XML processing. Notably, he has guided live production services at extreme scale while navigating stringent compliance and isolation requirements that few engineers encounter. Based in Redmond, he also advises startups on sensor and autonomy tech through a board role, reflecting a blend of product insight and infrastructure depth.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at University of Missouri-Kansas CityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering at University of Mumbai
Github Skills (11)
pywin328
path-tracing7
tracer7
windows6
python6
ray4
linux4
gpu4
glsl4
opengl4
cpp3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
JAGJ10/PositionBasedFluids
Jan 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:171 commits, 196 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 7 months
FluidSim/Position-Based-Fluid
Oct 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:88 commits in 1 month
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