Summary
Joel Redman is a senior systems engineer with 11 years in high-impact roles across cloud and database companies, now a Sr. Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce in Seattle. He specializes in C++, C#, network programming, and software architecture, with deep experience in SQL Server query optimization and distributed services from roles at Microsoft, MongoDB, and Amazon. His background spans security-focused customer service systems, fraud detection using data-mining techniques, and large-scale database engineering, reflecting a blend of performance tuning and production reliability. Joel has steadily progressed through senior engineering roles since early work at Siemens and Verity Instruments, bringing institutional knowledge of low-level systems and enterprise software. Notably, he pairs hands-on coding in compiled languages with architecture-level thinking, making him effective at bridging implementation details and long-term system design. Based in Seattle with a BS in Computer Science/Math from Texas State, he thrives on solving hard networking and scalability problems in production environments.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science/Math, BS Computer Science/Math at Texas State University