Joel Mccracken
Senior Software Engineer at Bitnomial
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Mccracken is a senior software engineer based in Pittsburgh with 15 years of experience building reliable systems across startups and mid-size companies. He has moved between hands-on engineering and DevOps roles, most recently joining Bitnomial after shaping infrastructure and operational practices as DevOps Engineer III at Freckle by Renaissance. Joel has deep practical experience in systems and data acquisition—he built next-generation data acquisition infrastructure in Haskell at SESCO—and focuses on code quality and craft in every role. Comfortable across backend, infrastructure, and deployment tooling, he brings a pragmatic engineer’s mindset to production reliability and developer experience. Known for tackling varied assignments early in his career, he combines broad curiosity with steady delivery of maintainable systems.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (200)
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rust10
objective-c10
podcast10
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Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
joelmccracken/workstation
Aug 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:48 PRs, 709 pushes, 53 branches in 4 years 6 months
joelmccracken/real-dotfiles
Dec 2015 - Jul 2020
Contributions:207 commits, 122 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
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