Joel Smith
Head of Platform
Joel Smith is the Head of Platform at Mastra, leading product and engineering efforts around the entire Mastra platform. A high school English teacher turned software engineer turned product/engineering manager, he previously led product and engineering teams in early stage startups focused on blockchain data, incident management and developer tools infrastructure.
Posts by Joel Smith
Introducing deployable templates in Mastra platform
Create and deploy a new Mastra project using pre-built templates.
Jun 22, 2026
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Introducing auto-deployment in Mastra platform
Create and deploy your Mastra platform project from GitHub
Jun 19, 2026
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Introducing Managed Databases for Mastra Projects
Provision a database for your Mastra project in seconds.
Jun 16, 2026
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