Summary
Joel Mcgrady is a Senior Automation Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nearly a decade of hands-on experience designing cloud automation and Infrastructure-as-Code for fast-moving engineering teams. He has progressed from QA and software roles at startups and Twitter to leadership positions including Director of IT and senior DevOps roles at companies like Autodesk, Fluxx, Invitae, and currently Stelligent, giving him a pragmatic blend of ops, automation and team-facing leadership. Joel specializes in translating alert-driven incidents and production needs into repeatable IaC pipelines and observability improvements that scale across organizations. Notably comfortable in both startup and enterprise contexts, he pairs deep technical execution with an eye for documentation and operational resilience.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Portland State University