Joel Sahleen
Principal Product Manager, Walmart Translation Platform
South Jordan, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Sahleen is an internationalization and localization specialist and engineering leader with over a decade of experience architecting global SaaS and consumer platforms. He founded Spotify’s platform i18n team and has led globalization efforts at Domo, Adobe, and Wikimedia, building locale-aware frameworks, localization infrastructure, and data-driven localization metrics. Comfortable simultaneously managing multiple engineering teams, Joel blends hands-on engineering with product and platform strategy to centralize and scale i18n/l10n across large organizations. He also teaches and researches classical Chinese and comparative ethics, a rare humanities perspective that informs his approach to cross-cultural product design. Based in South Jordan, Utah, Joel now consults with clients of all sizes to design, implement, and educate on practical internationalization solutions.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahMA Chinese, MA Chinese at Stanford University
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (13)
cldr8
subtree8
w3c7
unicode7
css5
localization4
algorithms4
microservices3
spec3
translation3
linked-data2
internationalization2
rdf2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jsahleen/cldr-service
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
CLDR as a Service
Contributions:61 commits, 34 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 year 7 months
cldr
worldware-studios/msg
Jan 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:1 release, 14 PRs, 21 pushes in 6 months
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