Joel Latino was born in Ponte de Lima, Portugal, in 1989. He has been working in the IT industry since 2010, mostly as a software developer and BI developer.

He started his career at Xpand-IT—a Portuguese company specialized in strategic planning, consulting, implementation, and the maintenance of enterprise software that is fully adapted to the customer's needs—and earned his graduate degree in Informatics Engineering at the School of Technology and Management of the Viana do Castelo Polytechnic Institute.

Joel mainly focuses on open source web technology, databases, and business intelligence, and has some fascination with mobile technologies. He is responsible for developing some plugins to Pentaho Data Integration, such as Android and Apple push notification steps.