Summary
Joel Ramirez is a Stanford-educated software engineer and lecturer with 11 years of experience translating low-level systems knowledge into engaging coursework and practical web development. Now teaching computer organization, operating systems, and introductory CS at the University of Pennsylvania, he previously designed and taught rigorous Stanford classes on Unix/Linux, memory allocation, stack/heap design, pointer arithmetic, and bitwise manipulation to large cohorts. His background spans teaching, course design, and hands-on code review—he’s completed 100+ student code reviews and has guided projects from file-system and shell design to multiprocessing and multithreading. Based in Philadelphia, he blends deep systems expertise with a passion for accessibility in computing, often bringing research-informed pedagogy from his Symbolic Systems and CS training to the classroom.
11 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Stanford University