Summary
Diane Douglas is a Senior Developer with 11 years of experience building scalable web applications and e-commerce platforms, currently focused on architecting features and performance improvements for SaaS at NETYIELD. Trained in music technology at Berklee, she uniquely blends creative composition thinking with rigorous engineering—approaching code like music, piece by piece—which has informed both her C++ work on MIDI controllers and her Rails-first backend expertise. She has a strong track record of optimizing systems (notably cutting page load times by 61%), upgrading large codebases to modern Rails, and shipping prototypes that save weeks of development time. A seasoned mentor and curriculum developer, Diane has taught web development and music tech, onboarded new hires, and authored reusable Ruby libraries for e-commerce clients. Based in Philadelphia with a history of remote and agency work, she pairs front-end craftsmanship from Figma-to-JS with backend TDD and pragmatic client communication.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Music Technology, Music Technology at University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Music Synthesis Music Technology and Guitar Performance, Bachelor of Music Synthesis Music Technology and Guitar Performance at Berklee College of Music
Web and Mobile App Development, Web and Mobile App Development at Epicodus
Music Technology, Music Technology at Stanford University
English