Joel Bluemel

About Joel Bluemel

I\'m a Python backend engineer with 3+ years of production experience at Odoo, where I migrate enterprise codebases across major framework versions — projects ranging up to lines of custom Python across 40+ modules. My work covers the full lifecycle: analyzing breaking changes, refactoring business logic and PostgreSQL schemas, managing module dependency graphs, and shepherding clients from UAT to zero-downtime deployment. I\'ve contributed as a team engineer on large multi-engineer projects and led engagements end-to-end as primary engineer, owning architecture, module allocation, and client coordination. Stack: Python · PostgreSQL · multi-tenant architectures

Experience

1. Full Stack Engineer (Upgrade Services)

   Odoo

   Aug 2025 — Present

   Built and shipped 3 prompt-engineered Python tools using Gemini CLI — automating codebase analysis, refactor guidance, and UI component migration — reducing multi-hour manual review workflows to under 10 minutes per module, adopted across a 6-engineer team.– Led enterprise Python/PostgreSQL codebase migrations across major framework versions — analyzing legacy business logic, refactoring to compliance, authoring custom upgrade scripts, and delivering zero-downtime production deployments across projects up to LOC and 40+ modules.– Primary engineer on a LOC, 25-module enterprise migration — scoped module ownership across a 3-person team, coordinated client UAT, and managed the full staging-to-production deployment sequence.

Education

• Rithm School

  Full-Stack Software Engineering

• San Francisco State University

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts

  2014 — 2016

• Diablo Valley College

  Associate of Arts - AA, Media Industries Studies