Justin Poehnelt I'm the founder and CTO of Helen’s Foundry. We help teams catch when AI agents write the right code from the wrong premise, connecting work to the decisions behind it. Previously, I was a Senior Developer Relations Engineer at Google on the Workspace and Maps Platform teams, and a founding engineer at Descartes Labs. I architected the open-source Google Workspace CLI in Rust, built entirely via AI agents. When I'm not coding, I'm usually running long distances in the mountains of Colorado.
Justin Poehnelt I'm the founder and CTO of Helen’s Foundry. We help teams catch when AI agents write the right code from the wrong premise, connecting work to the decisions behind it. Previously, I was a Senior Developer Relations Engineer at Google on the Workspace and Maps Platform teams, and a founding engineer at Descartes Labs. I architected the open-source Google Workspace CLI in Rust, built entirely via AI agents. When I'm not coding, I'm usually running long distances in the mountains of Colorado.
Career
Justin Poehnelt holds a Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science from Northern Arizona University and a Bachelor’s Degree, Economics and Finance (dual majors) from University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
Senior Developer Relations Engineer at Google from 2019 to 2026-04Worked on the Google Workspace and Google Maps Platform developer-relations teams; created and maintained developer tooling, samples, and the Google Workspace CLI.