Doug Baer
Solution Architect, Advanced Services at Broadcom
Mesa, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolDoug Baer is a solution architect and technically adept leader with 11+ years in advanced services and over two decades of hands-on infrastructure experience. Currently at Broadcom (VMware), he drives incubation and adoption of new VMware Cloud Foundation services, bridging engineering, product, and customer needs. Previously he led a global team at VMware delivering hundreds of thousands of virtual lab environments and onboarding hundreds of volunteers annually, proving expertise in large-scale program design and technical enablement. His background ranges from datacenter stacks and virtualization to early production VMware deployments and cost-saving consolidation projects, reflecting deep operational know-how. A natural educator, he prioritizes customer understanding and team growth, pairing independent thinking with a collaborative leadership style. Outside work he’s an avid trail runner and global snack hunter—evidence of curiosity that also surfaces in his pragmatic, user-focused approach to solutions.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Stackoverflow
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54kreached
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Github Skills (15)
sdk10
vcloud-director10
python9
iaas9
vmware8
qt7
qml7
linux7
openstack7
powershell6
macos6
terminal-emulator4
hol4
high-availability2
aws2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
doug-baer/BBEdit-PowerShell
Aug 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
doug-baer/hol-xfer
Feb 2022 - Aug 2025
"Transfer node" scripts used to import/export/transfer templates between Cloud Director instances
Contributions:7 PRs, 23 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 6 months
instancesexportdirectorimport-exportaws
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