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 and autonomous mobile robots, owning manufacturing test for a new robot at Walmart's Advanced Systems & 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 — 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, 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.