Eric Douglas
VP Of Engineering at Buoyant
Los Gatos, California, United States
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Top SchoolEric Douglas is a seasoned technology executive with 11+ years of senior leadership experience building products, teams, and cultures across startups and large enterprises. Currently VP of Engineering at Buoyant, he leads teams that develop the open-source Linkerd ecosystem and its commercial offerings, blending deep product sensibility with platform-scale engineering. Previously he scaled NGINX engineering to ~200 people and helped drive a 4.3x post-acquisition revenue increase, and as CTO/VP at Hoopla and Symantec he delivered SaaS migrations, high availability, and multi-product roadmaps. A hands-on builder at heart, he contributes to open educational projects on GitHub (ossu/computer-science), demonstrating a continual curiosity for teaching and foundational CS concepts. He has repeatedly translated near- and long-term business goals into sustainable engineering organizations and repeatable delivery processes. Based in Los Gatos, he pairs executive strategy with developer-level craftsmanship to ship products customers love.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at California State University, Fresno
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Github Skills (11)
solve10
javascript10
nodejs10
computer-science10
solution10
prompter9
data-structure9
prompt9
algorithm9
data-structures9
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ossu/computer-science
May 2015 - Oct 2017
🎓 Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:268 commits, 145 PRs, 234 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to introductory computer science concepts by writing JavaScript code. Their work involved creating programs to solve problems from MIT's Introduction to Computer Science course, including basic input/output, conditional logic, and number theory concepts. The user also demonstrated familiarity with using the `prompt` module for input, refactoring code, and implementing basic problem sets.
curriculumcppsciencecomputer-sciencemortar
javascript-society/javascript-path
Oct 2015 - Feb 2021
:books: List of books to master JavaScript Development :rocket:
Contributions:49 commits, 30 PRs, 32 pushes in 5 years 4 months
javascriptjavascript-path
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