# Joel Brubaker

> Founding Engineer | Design x Engineering | Onlook (YC25)

Location: San Diego, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/joelbrubaker

On a mission to bring AI-leverage to design teams. Protecting the world from vibe-coded slop design.

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Onlook (YC W25)
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Principal Software Engineer @ Blitz
Jan 2022 – Jan 2026 | Los Angeles, California, United States

### Lead Software Engineer @ Mayfair
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Diego, California, United States

### Project Lead, Switchboard @ Little Bear Labs
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Diego, California, United States

### Head of Engineering @ Premier Healthcare Management
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Diego
Built a team of ten engineers, two designers, and three data scientists at a fast-paced healthcare management company. Worked directly with the CEO to manage day-to-day operations of the tech team while implementing features to drive growth and stability.

Reduced project turn around times from 10 to 4 weeks through structured processes around feature planning, design, execution, and code reviews.

Managed infrastructure across AWS and GCP while leading best practices w/ team across frontend and backend.

### Lead Software Engineer @ Premier Healthcare Management
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Diego, California, United States
Implemented microservices architecture for automating and processing critical data aggregation pipelines, reducing reporting turn-around times from weekly batches to same day (under 60s).

Improved and automated fraud, waste and abuse detection by implementing a comprehensive and customizable triggering engine

Identified and refactored dozens of poor-performing SQL queries negatively impacting user experience and workflow

Implemented best practices for authentication, authorization and logging of detailed user activity

### Lead Full Stack Engineer @ Omni Holding Company
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Diego, California, United States
Developed SaaS platform with launch partner Pure Cycling Studio including integrated POS system, fitness metrics, user profiles, billing, payroll and scheduling (GCP / Laravel / React / Redux).

Built highly scalable, fast, clean and expertly styled applications for both web and mobile.

### Senior Full Stack Engineer @ Tipsy Elves
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Diego, California, United States
Led platform migration from Magento to in-house custom solution (GCP / Laravel / Vue).

Migrated existing Magento site to google cloud infrastructure (Compute Engine / Cloud SQL).

Implemented SEO best practices and responsive overhaul of consumer facing frontend.

### Integrated Marketing Specialist @ Rescue | The Behavior Change Agency
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Diego, California, United States
Led federal and local digital health campaigns across the country w/ custom-built digital experiences (HTML / CSS / Laravel).

Built google spreadsheets integration w/ Facebook API to manage spending alerts.

### Digital Strategist / Web Developer @ Immersive Youth Marketing
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Diego, California, United States
Designed and implemented marketing landing pages w/ SEO best practices.

### Digital Marketing Associate @ UC Berkeley Rec Sports Marketing
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | San Francisco Bay Area


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Media Studies
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joelbrubaker
- Website: https://www.joelbrubaker.com

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Source: https://flows.cv/joelbrubaker
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/joelbrubaker/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-29