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Joel Varty

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CTO, President at Agility
📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Joel is the Chief Technology Officer at Agility CMS, where he has driven product innovation for over 20 years. He specializes in composable, API-first, and cloud-native platforms and holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Guelph. Colleagues consistently describe him as exceptionally smart, a talented developer, and an expert debugger.

Outside of his tech leadership role, Joel is an active runner who trains for and completes half-marathons. He maintains a personal website where he documents his coding projects, such as rebuilding the site with AI, and shares his thoughts on business literature he is reading.

He recently led Agility CMS to win the CMS Idol 2025 award with a live, GenAI-powered product demonstration.

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Experience
27 Years
Current Role
CTO, President
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Personality Overview

How Joel shows up

People-Oriented
Trusting
Pragmatic

They will fight for you if they come to believe in you. They are more likely to accept new and exciting technologies. A combination of speed and relationship gets the best response from them.

Priorities

Topics Joel cares about

Generative AI
Recently won an award for a GenAI-powered demo and uses AI tools for personal coding projects, which he documents on his blog.
Composable Architecture
A vocal advocate for moving beyond monolithic systems to flexible, composable, and headless platforms, a topic he frequently discusses on podcasts.
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Career

Work history

2-2021
CTO, President
Agility
5-2019 - 2-2021
President
Agility
11-2018 - 2-2021
Chief Technology Officer
Agility
2-2005 - 2-2021
VP of Innovation & Development
Agility
2-2003 - 2-2005
Solution Architect
Point Alliance Inc.
In the press

Media appearances

Agility CMS' CTO, Joel Varty, Inspires Discussions on Customer‑Centric Innovations at the CMS Experts Event. Featured in EIN Presswire
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Joel Varty, CTO of Agility: What's New With Agility & Composable .... Featured in YouTube
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Education
1995 - 1999
Bachelor of Arts
University of Guelph
Social presence
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DISC profile (public)

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Influence (I)

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