Joel Barciauskas is an accomplished lead engineer and technical manager with extensive experience in software and systems team leadership for SaaS product and custom development projects. He specializes in high-traffic web hosting and SaaS environments, continuous integration and delivery, high-volume email delivery, service-oriented architecture, database management, performance analysis, and NoSQL / alternative datastores. Joel has served as Director, Engineering at Datadog and formerly held positions as Engineering Site Lead, Lead Engineer, and Engineering Manager - Open Source at edX. Additionally, he has held leadership positions at Blue State Digital and was formerly Lead Developer at Nexaweb Technologies and Consultant at Deloitte Consulting.