# Joe Achett

> Principal Engineer at PubNub

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/joeachett

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ PubNub
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Principal Software Engineer - Distinguished Technologist @ OpenText
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Santa Clara, California, United States
(Transitioned to OpenText as part of the Micro Focus acquisition in Jan 2023)

### Principal Software Engineer - Distinguished Technologist @ Micro Focus
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | Santa Clara, CA
Software Architect and Distinguished Technologist - focusing primarily on leading the SecureData Enterprise integration with Cloud and Big Data technologies, including AWS, Hadoop, etc.

### Principal Software Engineer - Master Technologist @ Micro Focus
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Sunnyvale, CA
(Transitioned to Micro Focus as part of HPE Software spin-merger with that company, in Sept 2017)

### Principal Software Engineer - Master Technologist @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Sunnyvale, CA
(Technical Lead at Voltage Security, Inc., acquired by HP/HPE in April 2015)

Principal Software Engineer and Technical Lead on SecureData Enterprise and BigData products, primarily focused on security integrations around Hadoop and related Apache technologies (TDE, MapReduce, Hive, Sqoop, NiFi, etc).

Also primary team expert on Enterprise Security server products, including Management Console Web UI, Key Management Server, and Web Services Server.

### Technical Lead @ VOLTAGE SECURITY
Jan 2007 – Jan 2015 | Cupertino, CA

### Sr. Software Engineer @ Elemental Security, Inc.
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 | San Mateo, CA
Integrated the Elemental Security Platform (ESP) with external trouble ticket systems, including BMC Remedy and SalesForce.com, via SOAP-based web services.  Made misc. performance and functional enhancements to the application's ETL (extract-transform-load) process, to improve the flow of data from the main transactional (OLTP) database to the historical data warehouse (OLAP) database.

### Consultant @ Covad
Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 | San Jose, CA
Java Consultant

### Consultant @ Wells Fargo Bank
Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 | San Francisco, CA
Worked with a team of senior Java developers on various projects to enhance the Wells Fargo online Bill Pay web application, including adding new functionality to support credit card funded payments, payee account number validation and masking, and batch enrolling of the user's Wells Fargo accounts.  Also, developed a set of SOAP-based Web Services to retrieve and return certain Bill Pay information, including the list of pending payments and payment history for a customer, for use by other Wells Fargo applications.

### Senior Consultant @ Baxter Healthcare
Jan 2001 – Jan 2005 | Deerfield, IL
Designed and implemented several web applications, using Struts MVC framework.  Converted existing web apps to Struts, and standardized on this framework for all future web development in the company's software engineering group, by training the other Java developers on how to use it.

### Senior Consultant @ Widepoint
Jan 1999 – Jan 2005 | Oakbrook Terrace, IL
Consulted on various Windows and Web-based UI application projects throughout the Chicagoland area, including assignments at Baxter Healthcare, The Pampered Chef, Hewitt Associates, and TransUnion Corp.

### Senior Consultant @ The Pampered Chef
Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 | Addison, IL
Developed several web applications as part of the main Pampered Chef web site, including the conversion of their entire e-commerce functionality (main shopping cart and checkout process) from ASP to a more robust implementation using Java servlets, JSP, and Enterprise Java Beans (EJB).

### Consultant @ Hewitt Associates
Jan 2000 – Jan 2000 | Lincolnshire, IL
Designed and implemented a Pension Choice web application to allow employees to login, view personalized information, model various different pension election scenarios, and select a different pension plan based on the results of this modeling.

### Consultant @ TransUnion Credit Bureau
Jan 1999 – Jan 1999 | Chicago, IL
Designed and implemented a 32-bit windows client/server application to manage the front-end processes involved in tracking the services performed by TransUnion’s Employment Screening Services division (TUESS), including managing customer subscriber profiles and requests, vendor information, and courthouse and other information sources used to satisfy a search request.

### Consultant @ Butler Technology Solutions
Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 | Schaumburg, IL

### Lead Windows Application Developer @ Efficient Market Services, Inc.
Jan 1993 – Jan 1998 | Deerfield, IL
Acted as technical team leader for conversion of report scheduler interface from Paradox to a more robust, client/server implementation using Delphi and Informix.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Northwestern University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joeachett

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Last updated: 2026-04-12