Joel Paulien
Programmer Analyst at Loma Linda University
Beaumont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Paulien is a pragmatic Programmer Analyst with 15 years of software development experience focused on building and improving real-world applications for institutions like Loma Linda University. He designs and implements in-house solutions—particularly for research and administrative workflows—where his work on electronic forms, automation, and policy-aware systems measurably streamlined processes such as donation intake. A longtime open-source contributor, Joel has applied backend PHP fixes and privacy/registration migrations to the widely used Simple Machines Forum, showing attention to both legacy code and compliance. Based in Beaumont, California, he balances a creator’s mindset with methodical problem-solving, preferring projects that help others and produce tangible value. Collected from a career that began with passion projects in 2006, his strength is turning messy requirements into maintainable, user-focused software.
15 years of coding experience
Associate of Science - AS, computer information systems, Associate of Science - AS, computer information systems at Crafton Hills College
Github Skills (8)
php10
simplemachinesforum10
mysqli10
forum10
databases9
database9
database-api9
postgresql3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SimpleMachines/SMF
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is free and open-source community forum software, delivering professional grade features in a package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 21 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
Contributions summary:Joel primarily contributed to the Simple Machines Forum (SMF) project by modifying PHP source code. Their work focused on enhancing the registration and privacy policy features. This included fixing syntax issues, migrating privacy policy systems, and ensuring admin-created user accounts accepted the user agreement and privacy policy. They also corrected headers of key PHP files.
professionalforumforum-softwaresmfmachines
MisterVector/Code-Speak-Distribution-Client
Aug 2018 - Apr 2022
Contributions:7 releases, 225 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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