1. Avram Joel Spolsky was born on 1965 and is a software engineer and writer.
13 Facts About Joel Spolsky
1. 2.
Joel Spolsky is the author of Joel on Software, a blog on software development, and the creator of the project management software Trello.
3.
Joel Spolsky was a Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel team between 1991 and 1994.
4.
Joel Spolsky later founded Fog Creek Software in 2000 and launched the Joel on Software blog.
5.
Joel Spolsky was one of the founders of the kibbutz Hanaton in Lower Galilee.
6.
Joel Spolsky started working at Microsoft in 1991 as a program manager on the Microsoft Excel team, where he designed Excel Basic and drove Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications strategy.
7.
Joel Spolsky moved to New York City in 1995 where he worked for Viacom and Juno Online Services.
8.
In 2005, Joel Spolsky co-produced and appeared in Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks, a documentary documenting Fog Creek's development of Project Aardvark, a remote assistance tool.
9.
In 2008, Joel Spolsky co-founded Stack Overflow, a question and answer community website for software developers, with Jeff Atwood.
10.
Joel Spolsky served as CEO of the company until Prashanth Chandrasekar succeeded him in the role on October 1,2019.
11.
In 2011, Joel Spolsky launched Trello, an online project management tool inspired by Kanban methodology.
12.
In 2016, Joel Spolsky announced the appointment of Anil Dash as Fog Creek Software's new CEO, with Joel Spolsky continuing as Stack Overflow's CEO and as a Fog Creek Software board member.
13.
In 2015, Joel Spolsky announced his marriage to his husband, Jared, on social media and his blog.