Joel Dunham

Joel Dunham has a strong background in software engineering, with a focus on web applications and RESTful web services. Joel has experience working in various industries, including event booking, technical safety, and linguistic research.

At their most recent role as a Staff Software Engineer at CircleCI, Joel has been responsible for developing and maintaining software solutions. Prior to that, they worked as a Senior Software Engineer at the same company.

Before joining CircleCI, Joel served as a Senior Software Engineer at VenueBook, where they collaborated with external partners to design and develop integrations. Joel built a REST marketplace API using Clojure and developed end-to-end tests for supplier integrations.

Additionally, Joel worked as a Software Developer at Technical Safety BC, where they developed software solutions for safety processes. At Artefactual Systems Inc., they designed and built web applications, test and deployment infrastructure, and front-end components for Archivematica. Joel also implemented automated acceptance tests to increase quality assurance.

During their time at the Department of Classics, Modern Languages, and Linguistics at Concordia University, Joel worked as a Full-stack Software Developer on a project related to documenting and analyzing endangered natural languages. Joel developed SPAs, REST web services, migration scripts, and deployment tools.

Joel gained teaching experience as a Teaching Assistant at The University of British Columbia and also contributed to linguistic research as a Linguistic Database Developer & Administrator. Joel developed language-specific linguistic database web applications and created RESTful web service interfaces.

Overall, Joel Dunham has a diverse range of experience in software engineering, with a focus on web applications, RESTful web services, and test automation.

Joel Dunham's education history includes a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Philosophy, which was obtained from The University of British Columbia from 1999 to 2006. Later, they pursued further education and earned a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Linguistics from the same institution between 2007 and 2014. In 2011, they participated in a Summer Institute organized by the Linguistic Society of America, focusing on Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing.