Summary
Joey Whelan is a Principal Customer Architect at Elastic with 12 years of technology-focused experience and a broader career spanning leadership roles in product, solutions, and systems integration. He combines deep cloud transformation and architecture expertise with hands-on product management experience from Redis and large-scale systems integration leadership at Verizon. Joey's background is grounded in computer science (BS and MS) and informed by an earlier career as a U.S. Air Force pilot, which contributes to a disciplined, mission-focused approach to complex technical programs. He excels at translating business needs into scalable, operational architectures and has led specialized solution teams that bridge engineering, product, and customer outcomes. Based in Woodland Park, Colorado, Joey brings a rare mix of tactical execution and strategic vision that helps enterprises accelerate cloud adoption while keeping reliability and observability front and center.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Baylor University