Cody Doucette
Senior Software Engineer at Harvard Extension School
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCody Doucette is a Senior Software Engineer based in Boston with 13 years of experience building distributed systems, networked architectures, and security-focused infrastructure. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Boston University and moved from research at Raytheon BBN into production engineering roles at Cloudflare, where he now works on scalable cloud and edge services. Cody contributes to notable open-source projects including Apache Spark (Kafka integration and backpressure fixes) and Cloudflare tooling (Wrangler and Workers templates), demonstrating a strong backend focus across Rust, JVM, and cloud stacks. He also teaches computer science courses at Harvard Extension School and Tufts, translating research-grade systems thinking into practical curriculum. Known for improving developer UX as well as robustness—e.g., documentation and tooling work on the Apache Spark website—he blends deep protocol-level expertise with hands-on engineering for operational systems.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Boston University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (31)
spark10
amazon-sqs10
aws-sqs-fifo10
big-data10
kafka10
cloudflare-workers10
java10
scala10
amazon-dynamodb10
aws-sdk10
javas10
dynamodb10
rust10
developer-tools10
documentation10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
cloudflare/templates
Oct 2020 - Feb 2022
Templates for Cloudflare Workers
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Cloud Engineer
Backend Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:19 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Cody contributed to several examples showcasing the use of AWS services (DynamoDB, SQS, Aurora) within Cloudflare Workers. The contributions included implementing and integrating code for interacting with these services, as well as updating the codebase to accommodate new features, such as examples integrating with AuroraDB. The user also worked on customizing the build process and optimizing the Workers. Furthermore, the user made use of I/O gates in their code.
cloudflare-r2cloudflareserverlessworkersstarter-templates
apache/spark-website
Mar 2017 - Nov 2018
Apache Spark Website
Role in this project:Technical Writer & Community Contributor
Technical Writer & Community ContributorContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 10 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Cody primarily contributed to the Apache Spark website documentation and community resources. Their work involved adding documentation for new developer tools, fixing links, and updating information on the project's improvement proposals (SPIPs). Additionally, the user added themselves to the list of committers. The contributions focus on improving the website's structure and clarity for developers and the broader Spark community.
pythonsqlapachebig-dataspark
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