Joel Westberg
Staff Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Westberg is a Staff Engineer based in Austin with 11 years of experience designing and leading large-scale search, storage, and analytics systems. He has progressed from hands-on roles in search consulting and engineering to leadership positions at Lucidworks and now shapes infrastructure and product interactions at Reddit. Joel combines a design-oriented engineering background with strong advocacy for agile practices and close product-engineering collaboration to deliver world-class software. He excels at uniting motivated teams to solve hard information access problems using Solr/Lucene-era expertise applied at internet scale. An early leader in student and technical communities, he brings both civic-minded leadership and practical delivery experience to complex technical programs.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
English
Stackoverflow
2,686reputation
537kreached
29answers
12questions
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Github Skills (26)
ajax9
jquery9
http9
internet-explorer9
python-client8
reddit8
fusion7
lucidworks7
generics6
infinite-loop6
junit6
textmate6
python6
loops6
solr6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lucidworks/logstash-output-json_batch
Dec 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 18 commits, 4 PRs in 7 months
loggerbatchinglogginglogstash
jwestberg/youtube-connector
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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