Engineer by day. Builder by night.

I'm Joel Wells, an engineer who has spent the last twelve plus years moving between mechanical design, robotics, automation, and controls. The common thread has never been a single discipline. It's been figuring out whatever the problem actually needs and then going and building it.

My career started in an R&D shop building one-off prototypes, including two flight-ready parts tested on the International Space Station, and grew through SolidWorks expertise, large-assembly mechanical design, and FEA. From there I moved into automation and robotics: integrating cobots into custom systems, deploying autonomous mobile robots, owning manufacturing test for a new robot at Walmart's Advanced Systems and Robotics group, leading automation at Nucor, and today working as a Controls Engineer III at InflexionPoint.

Outside of work, I build. SquareOne Creations started because I needed a better way to haul mountain bikes in my truck and because I wanted to know what it actually takes to run a business. Product development, supply chains, pricing, taxes, margins, customer service. All of it. It became the SideRide bike mount, a real product with a local supply chain and close to a thousand customers. Since then I've shipped GearVote, a full-stack web app built solo, and launched LucidBreak, a tool that takes ten honest questions and gives you back a reading of who you actually are: your patterns, your obsessions, and your next three moves. I've also stood up a complete home lab and network and renovated an entire house down to the framing while working full time.

It all traces back to Millersville University, where I studied Applied Engineering with a focus on robotics and control systems, led the robotics and submersible research teams, and managed the robot that won the 2013 ATMAE national championship.

Whether the answer is a CAD model, a PLC program, a line of code, or a part fabricated from a napkin sketch, I'd rather learn it and build it than wait for someone else to.

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." — Albert Einstein