Joel Watson
Software Engineer at Deliveries On Demand
Olathe, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Watson is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience designing and delivering web applications and backend systems from Olathe, Kansas. He has led engineering teams and sustained critical JavaScript tooling at Sencha—building an Electron-based test runner and Node.js backend integrations—while architecting large-scale ColdFusion/SQL Server systems for enterprise clients. Comfortable across the full stack, Joel has strong expertise in backend data modeling, REST APIs, real-time integrations, and query-building, evidenced by contributions to the ColdBox HMVC framework where he enhanced ORM detached-criteria and subquery capabilities. He blends hands-on coding, sprint leadership, and release management, and often bridges product, support, and customer-facing workstreams to turn complex requirements into reliable releases. Unusually for an engineer with deep enterprise experience, he also holds advanced theological studies, reflecting a broad intellectual curiosity outside tech.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts, Theological Studies, Master of Arts, Theological Studies at Asbury Theological SeminaryBachelor of Science, Pastoral Ministries, Bachelor of Science, Pastoral Ministries at Oklahoma Wesleyan University
Github Skills (9)
hmvc10
hibernate10
orm10
sql10
cfml10
coldfusion10
dependency-injection9
aop8
caching6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ColdBox/coldbox-platform
Oct 2012 - Nov 2013
A modern, fluent and conventions based HMVC framework for ColdFusion (CFML)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Joel primarily focused on enhancing the ColdBox framework's ORM capabilities. Their work involved adding and refactoring features for the DetachedCriteria builder, including support for subqueries, SQL projections, and improved flexibility. They also contributed to the implementation of subquery-related restrictions and expanded testing coverage for these new features. The user's contributions appear to be focused on improving the framework's database interaction and query building functionality.
hmvccfmlframeworklogging-librarydependency-injection
existdissolve/feelsbox-server
Dec 2017 - Jul 2024
Contributions:136 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 8 months
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