Doug Aaser is a senior systems engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, network-aware production systems, currently focused on testing at scale at Cloudflare. He brings deep systems-level programming expertise and a strong track record in distributed systems and L7/L4 networking, having worked on Shopify’s global routing control plane and serverless backend infrastructure at Truist. Highly proficient in Kubernetes, Go, Rust, GCP, and AWS, he blends hands-on implementation with architectural thinking to simplify complex request routing and replay workflows. Doug has participated in both research and applied engineering projects—from performance I/O tooling on the Titan supercomputer to OpenStack Airship contributions—demonstrating a habit of tackling under-documented challenges and shipping robust solutions. Based in Knoxville, Tennessee, he thrives on roles that push him to learn and think creatively under real-world constraints.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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