Joel Martinez is a CEO and founder with a decade of hands-on software engineering experience who builds technology to streamline Health & Life insurance workflows and grow agencies. He moved from leading engineering teams and modernizing legacy PHP stacks into founding Apizeal, combining deep technical skills (PHP/Symfony, MySQL, REST APIs, frontend UX) with product and business leadership. Joel has a track record of infrastructure modernization—migrating PHP versions, redesigning databases, automating billing, and introducing Git-based workflows—to improve reliability and team velocity. A former professor in C++ and data structures, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset to mentoring teams and translating complex requirements into practical products. Based in Orlando, he pairs operational rigor with a customer-first focus to create solutions that let agents spend more time selling and less time managing systems.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Ciencias de la computación, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Ciencias de la computación at Universidad de Carabobo
Contributions:18 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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