Summary
Joe Ellis is an Engineering Group Lead based in Denver with 13 years of experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems at scale, primarily at Palantir Technologies where he progressed from intern to group lead. He combines hands-on software architecture and team leadership with practical operational experience across compute, deployment, and infrastructure quality. Joe holds both a BS and MS in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and has a track record of mentoring teams to deliver reliable, scalable services. Outside core engineering, he advises at Asymmetric, bringing product-aware technical judgment to early-stage decisions. Notably, his career path shows a pattern of solving deployment and scale challenges end-to-end—from export pipelines and remote server configuration to deployment management.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Richmond-Burton Community High School
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Chicago