Joel Sahleen
Internationalization Localization Consultant
South Jordan, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Sahleen is an internationalization and localization specialist and engineering leader with over a decade of experience architecting global SaaS and consumer platforms. He founded Spotify’s platform i18n team and has led globalization efforts at Domo, Adobe, and Wikimedia, building locale-aware frameworks, localization infrastructure, and data-driven localization metrics. Comfortable simultaneously managing multiple engineering teams, Joel blends hands-on engineering with product and platform strategy to centralize and scale i18n/l10n across large organizations. He also teaches and researches classical Chinese and comparative ethics, a rare humanities perspective that informs his approach to cross-cultural product design. Based in South Jordan, Utah, Joel now consults with clients of all sizes to design, implement, and educate on practical internationalization solutions.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahMA, Chinese, MA, Chinese at Stanford University
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (2)
cldr8
golang4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jsahleen/cldr-service
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
CLDR as a Service
Contributions:61 commits, 34 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 year 7 months
golangas-a-servicecldr
jsahleen/js-starter
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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