Doug Brown
Staff Software Engineer at Afresh
Guelph/Eramosa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDoug Brown is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building product-focused web and mobile experiences, often as an early engineering hire in fast-moving startups. He led the end-to-end build of the Pexels mobile app (React Native, TypeScript) that drove rapid growth and high reliability, and his work at Pexels was a key factor in its acquisition by Canva. A front-end specialist with deep practical skills in responsive UI, SASS/CSS, and performance-minded engineering, Doug contributed to DuckDuckGo’s major redesign and open-source front-end projects. He excels at turning ambiguous product needs into shipping features, having driven 200%+ growth projects and reduced runtime errors dramatically through pragmatic refactors. Comfortable across the stack—from server-rendered React and streaming APIs to mobile upload queues and payment integrations—he balances modern techniques with a strong sense of engineering discipline. Based in Ontario, Doug combines a craftsman’s attention to detail with repeated success in high-impact, growth-oriented roles.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Leadership Skills, Certificate Leadership Skills at Sheridan College
Github Skills (6)
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
handlebars10
html7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/community-platform
May 2013 - Sep 2014
DuckDuckGo Community Platform
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:342 commits, 2 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Doug primarily contributed to the front-end design and styling of the DuckDuckGo Community Platform. Their commits involved updating CSS files related to UI components such as Select2, the main styling sheet, and styles for forum and blog features. They made visual improvements and incorporated custom icons while focusing on responsiveness and the look and feel of the interface.
community-platformduckduckgo
duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice
Dec 2013 - Oct 2015
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on JavaScript (JSON) APIs
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:194 commits, 33 PRs, 73 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Doug primarily contributed to the front-end components of the DuckDuckGo Instant Answers project, specifically focusing on the weather forecast feature. Their work involved the utilization of Handlebars.js for templating, along with CSS adjustments and Javascript code to render and display the forecast information. They refactored and implemented changes to the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files to improve the layout, spacing, and responsiveness of the weather interface on different devices.
javascriptinstant-answersperlduckduckgohandlebars-js
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