Will Douglas Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

With a desire to see more of the world, I decided to leave Crisis Text Line to take a Sabbatical and travel abroad. I visited 15 countries in Africa, Europe, and Asia.

New York, New York, Us

Focused on engineering architectural and organizational changes while continuing to lead product implementations. Some highlights include:Architectural - Defined architecture decision process and created architecture review group - Helped rewrite the main application to better leverage new ecosystem tools and technologies - Developed a new machine learning development and deployment system and worked with a small team to deploy a completely overhauled triage machine learning model - Continued expanding testing, type checking, and linting as well as improving our monitoring and observability to improve our quality - Used code modification tools to programmatically update our codebases to use modern and secure practicesOrganizational - Led an overhaul of our hiring pipeline from the job descriptions, interview process, questions, technical exercises, and interview rubric. These were used to nearly double the size of our engineering organization in less than a year - Overhauled engineering onboarding - Led weekly engineering learning meetings, taught workshops, and mentored engineers - Worked with the product team to improve our processes and tracking

New York, New York, Us

Led a series of major initiatives to overhaul our testing and quality while also improving our products and processes. A few highlights include:Testing and Quality - Set up front-end testing and moved from 0% to over 80% test coverage, converted from JavaScript to 100% strictly typed TypeScript, on a codebase with over 100k lines of code - Added multiple forms of linting across multiple codebases and languages - Wrote documentation, taught multiple workshops, and coached others on improving our code qualityProduct - Created a new data science and machine learning service - Improved product performance by reducing computation and layout thrashing - Implemented time-sensitive featuresLeadership - Drove engineering weekly discussions, onboarded new engineers to the company, led the adoption of new processes and documentation

San Jose, California, Us

Developed a new data warehouse and predictive analytics service:- Built a new star-schema data warehouse- Built a new service to analyze historical data and provide insights- Developed front-end components to present historical trends and insights to customers- Created a customer churn prediction model- Helped maintain data infrastructure for communication between application services as well as distributed tracing system for data analytics

San Jose, California, Us

Updated the on-prem version of CA Agile Central (formerly Rally) to accommodate several years of new system architecture and services:- Designed architecture for a new on-premises version of the product based on containerized services- Dockerized services- Performed system load testing- Automated provisioning of VMs with Packer and Ansible- Updated linux services to use systemd instead of init

San Jose, California, Us

Worked on CA Agile Central (formerly Rally) product features and architecture:- Created new Clojure microservices- Investigated transitioning to GraphQL- Led implementation of a new front-end data fetching and data management system to streamline and simplify how the application manages data- Developed key distinguishing pages for the application- Helped transition product to a new front-end technology stack using React.js and es2015+- Added and promoted the use of flow static typing

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Co-founded and co-organized Code for Boulder (http://www.codeforboulder.org) in late 2013 before moving back to Denver in mid-2014 and taking over as Co-Captain of Code for Denver (http://www.codefordenver.org):• Coordinated and worked on 11+ Code for Denver partnership projects with 10+ nonprofits, and with local government• Contributed as lead architect and technical contributor on 8+ projects• Managed 6 projects• Coordinated Agile teams of distributed volunteers• Mentored other software engineers• Ran and facilitated a weekly meetup• Co-organized hackathons• FundraisedPrimary technologies: TypeScript, (React, Apollo, GraphQL), JavaScript (React, Redux, Loopback, Node.js), Clojure, HTML, CSS

• Worked as a primary developer for updating and maintaining sparkhelp.org, a peer-to-peer disaster relief coordination platform• Led development for a new platform for tracking vehicles and persons on the ground during a disaster• Developed quick proof of concept web applications to demonstrate possibilities to potential fundersPrimary technologies: JavaScript (React, Redux, webpack, Loopback.js, jQuery, Can.js), CSS

Worked as primary developer on Imprint for Life's product, Footprint ID, which aims to offer easier access to personal medical records.• Enhanced security of RESTful API• Reorganized page flow for greater usability and user experience• Updated SQL schema• Implemented numerous features and bug fixes that spanned the full stackPrimary technologies: Node.js, Express, Angular, MySQL, Git

After finishing our robotics consulting project as part of a team at the University of Denver, I was hired to help develop another inexpensive robot toy that could benefit the development of children with sever cognitive disabilities.• Worked on mobile robot to interact with children with cognitive disabilities• Studied computer vision and machine learning• Developed algorithm for tracking robot with Microsoft KinectPrimary Technologies: Kinect 2.0 developer kit, OpenCV, C#, C++

Hired to update the denverGears.com website so it would be fully editable by a non technical user.• Used HTML5 video and later the Youtube API to synchronize data visualization to video• Created custom form for adding additional videos and data to the site• Replaced hard coded elements with dynamic and customizable elementsPrimary Technologies: Wordpress, Javascript, PHP, MySQL

Employed by the University of Denver Undergraduate Student Government to manage its website• Managed content for the Undergraduate Student Government website• Built new site on Drupal, an easier to use, and more customizable CMS• Designed site layout and appearancePrimary Technologies: Drupal, CSS

Gaithersburg, Md, Us

• Returned to continue research on the calcium optical atomic clock.• Got frequency precision better than a part in 10^14 • Research published in 2012 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium

Gaithersburg, Md, Us

Started a new optical atomic clock project at NIST aimed at a more commercial yet still very precise optical clock.• Involved in every aspect of building a new atomic clock stable frequency• Aligned lasers and their frequency to create a Ramsey-Bordé spectrometer through a beam of thermal calcium atoms• Programmed PID controllers to lock to Ramsey-Bordé fringes