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Joel Spolsky

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

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Alma mater
Yale University
Born
1965 (age 60–61) Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Occupations
Software developer CEO, Stack Exchange Network Co-founder, Stack Overflow, Fog Creek Software and Trello

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