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Joel Spolsky

American software engineer and writer

Avram Joel Spolsky (Hebrew: אברם יואל ספולסקי; born 1965) is a software engineer and writer. He is the author of Joel on Software, a blog on software development, and the creator of the project management software Trello.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Joel Spolsky (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born 1965.¹

About

He was a Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel team between 1991 and 1994. He later founded Fog Creek Software in 2000 and launched the Joel on Software blog.

From Wikipedia’s article on Joel Spolsky, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

Glitch, Inc.Founder¹⁴
Stack ExchangeFounder¹⁵

Early life and education

Date not recordedPierson College³
Date not recordedYale University³
Date not recordedUniversity of Pennsylvania³

Career

Occupation: businessperson, chief executive officer, computer scientist, programmer.⁸

Date not recordedWorked at Microsoft⁴
Date not recordedFounded Stack Exchange⁵
Date not recordedFounded Glitch, Inc.⁶
Date not recordedFounded Stack Overflow⁷

Personal life

Born1965, Albuquerque⁹
CitizenshipIsrael, United States¹⁰

In 2015, Spolsky announced his marriage to his husband, Jared, on social media and his blog. In 2015, he reported on his own Web site that he lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.