Summary
Joel Mcnierney is a Staff Data Engineer with 13 years of experience building analytics platforms, data pipelines, and user-facing reporting tools that turn complex business metrics into actionable insights. He’s led cross-functional teams at financial institutions to modernize executive reporting, implement DevOps container workflows, and create semantic data layers that standardize key indicators across lines of business. Comfortable across the full stack, Joel combines front-end visualization work, backend ETL and warehouse modeling, and production monitoring to deliver reliable, auditable solutions. Based in Portland, he pairs an economics background with a professional certificate in blockchain, reflecting an interest in emerging distributed technologies alongside pragmatic data engineering.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Economics, BA, Economics at University of Colorado Boulder
Certificate, Blockchain: Disruptive Technology, Certificate, Blockchain: Disruptive Technology at MIT Professional Education