Don McCaughey
Founder And Software Quality Expert at Rat Cat Dog Software
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDon McCaughey is a founder and software quality expert with 11 years of engineering and leadership experience based in San Francisco, known for building cross-functional teams that reliably ship high-quality software. He has led engineering at startups and large programs alike—from founding boutique firms to managing mobile and infrastructure teams, to driving delivery for a million-user VA mobile app with the U.S. Digital Service. Don combines hands-on technical review of codebases and tooling with data-driven diagnostics (DORA metrics, CI times, bug rates) and qualitative interviews to create tailored action plans that reduce friction between engineering, product, QA and go-to-market teams. He has a track record of doubling team size and release cadence, slashing production bugs, and mentoring engineers while embedding quality practices into development workflows. Notably comfortable onboarding as a pragmatic new team member, he often uncovers the “ground truth” of systems others miss and turns that insight into measurable improvements.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mechanical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering at New Jersey Institute of TechnologyMechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University
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Github Skills (23)
http10
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
donmccaughey/nginx_pkg
Jul 2018 - Sep 2023
Contributions:5 releases, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
donmccaughey/starjumper
Nov 2016 - Apr 2025
Contributions:61 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 5 months
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