Joel Poloney
Founder CEO at Startups
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Poloney is a founder and technical leader with 11 years of experience building startups and scalable consumer products from seed to exit. Based in San Francisco, he’s led engineering teams at Google and Zynga, co-founded multiple startups (Toro, MyMiniLife) and architected finance and automation platforms as CTO of Siteline. He blends deep full-stack engineering with product intuition—pioneering TypeScript/Angular adoption at Google and shipping complex features like fine-grained permissions and large-scale game infrastructure. Today he runs PairIt, a consumer-facing personalized wine sommelier app that reflects his long-standing interest in automation, AI, and computer vision. An active early-stage investor and advisor, he picks bets where he can add technical and operational leverage beyond capital. Joel’s background in both high-growth consumer products and developer tooling gives him a rare ability to turn domain complexity into simple, delightful user experiences.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
JOY Japanese, JOY Japanese at Yokohama National UniversityBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Japanese, English
Stackoverflow
419reputation
19kreached
3answers
13questions
Github Skills (107)
uiviewcontroller10
uiview10
inspect10
code-snippets10
internationalization9
attributedstring9
appkit9
file-upload9
swiftui9
introspection9
nsviewcontroller9
textview9
drag-and-drop9
translation9
typescript9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
siteline/eslint-config-siteline
Nov 2019 - Jul 2020
JS style for the Siteline organization
Contributions:9 PRs, 7 pushes, 8 branches in 8 months
siteline/firebase-mock
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Firebase mock library for writing unit tests
Contributions:4 PRs, 9 pushes in 18 days
testingfirebasefirebase-functionsunitunit-tests
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