Joel Wright
Principal Engineer at Cisco
King's Lynn and West Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Wright is a Principal Engineer with over a decade of experience building production-grade software and platform architecture across research, genomics, climate tech, and networking. He has progressed from academic research and compiler work to senior engineering and leadership roles at companies like Secondmind, Genomics plc, and now Cisco, routinely bridging applied research and pragmatic delivery. Known for Python/Django and distributed systems expertise, he has led platform and education engineering initiatives and specialised in turning research prototypes into reliable services. Based in King's Lynn, UK, he combines deep technical rigor from a PhD with a pragmatic focus on scalable, operational systems—often working at the intersection of scientific workflows and enterprise networking.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of Nottingham
Github Skills (143)
pylint10
intellisense10
editor9
visual-studio9
microsoft9
visual-studio-code9
python-extension9
electron9
vscode-extension9
typescript9
vscode9
serde8
vte8
linux8
opengl8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
joel-wright/dotfiles
May 2017 - Dec 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 2 issues in 7 years 7 months
climatepolicyradar/website
Mar 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:1 review, 340 PRs, 243 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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