Joel Christner has an extensive  background  in building technology products and companies, with a successful career spanning 25 years, dozens of patents, and multiple publications. As the founder and CEO of View, he's responsible for company operations and building the core technology View delivers to its customers and partners.  

Prior to View, Joel was a distinguished engineer and director at Dell Technologies, leading research in the areas of data management, distributed systems, as-a-service architectures, and artificial intelligence.  Additionally, Joel was the chair responsible for drafting the first two standards at SNIA related to storing data on DNA oligonucleotides. Before Dell, Joel played a significant role in bringing several startups to successful exits and recognized market leadership positions, including StorSimple (Microsoft), Reconnex (McAfee), Cloudgenix (Palo Alto Networks), and others.  

Joel holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Columbia University in the City of New York, has authored dozens of patents (in the domains of distributed systems, data, AI, as-a-service), and is an avid open source developer, managing and maintaining dozens of libraries and packages with millions of downloads.