Douglas Triggs
Senior Software Engineer at Ontra
Englewood, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDouglas Triggs is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of professional experience building reliable, well-tested backend systems across languages including TypeScript/Node, Ruby on Rails, Erlang, C#/Unity, and Objective-C. He currently contributes to Ontra after roles at Recurly, Aha!, Chef, and indie game development, demonstrating a rare mix of product-facing APIs, distributed backend work, and game-engine experience. Pragmatic about tools, he focuses on maintainable, efficient software and enjoys learning new languages like Swift and Rust when they fit the problem. Based in Englewood, Colorado, he pairs deep backend expertise (Postgres, APIs, distributed systems) with a cognitive-science-informed approach to problem solving and developer ergonomics.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Cognitive Science, BA, Cognitive Science at Rice UniversityJapanese Language Intensive Program, Japanese Language Intensive Program at Sophia University
Github Skills (24)
playing10
erlang9
ignition9
chef-infra9
robotics8
markdown7
hugo7
chef-workstation7
inspector7
devrel7
inspec7
react-library6
documentation5
autopilot5
cookbook4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
doubt72/utsg
Sep 2023 - Jul 2026
Contributions:454 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
doubt72/18xx
Oct 2021 - Dec 2023
A platform for playing 18xx games online!
Contributions:113 pushes, 27 branches in 2 years 2 months
18xxgamegamesonline-gamesplaying
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