Summary
Joel Steinbaugh is a serial founder and technology leader with 11 years of experience building full-stack products that streamline workflows for niche markets. As Co-Founder of Crystal, he helps jewellers modernize inventory, POS, and repair workflows with a cloud-native platform, drawing on prior co-founding CTO roles at education, music, and gaming startups where he owned the entire tech stack. Comfortable across design, iOS and backend development, Joel combines product intuition with hands-on engineering to ship end-to-end solutions. His early background in financial and sales analytics (BlackRock, Intermec) gives him a data-driven approach to product metrics and reporting. Based in the Greater Seattle Area and educated at USC Marshall, he blends startup grit with enterprise reporting discipline to scale operationally complex businesses.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at University of Southern California
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at USC Marshall School of Business