Doug Beedy
Owner at Master Brewers
Akron, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDoug Beedy is an experienced brewery owner and consultant with 13+ years in the beer and beverage industry, spanning hands-on brewing, brewery openings, and operational leadership from 3- to 30-barrel systems. He combines technical brewing education from Siebel Institute with practical experience running and scaling brewpubs, managing production, distribution, and multi-site operations. As owner of The Beer Builder he specializes in brewery design, installation, troubleshooting and short-term brewing assignments, and has supported equipment makers like Stout Tanks and Kettles and Slant 3D in pre- and post-sale technical services. A former Director of Operations and multi-site GM, he brings deep expertise in staffing, inventory and distributor relations, plus a background in chemical operations from military service that informs his process-oriented problem solving. Unusually for a brewing consultant, he also contributes to open-source editor projects by improving Linden Scripting Language syntax support in popular repos like highlight.js and Ace, showing a knack for technical detail and tooling beyond the taproom.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Brewing Science, Brewing Science at Siebel Institute of TechnologyBA Advertising and PR, BA Advertising and PR at Michigan State University
Github Skills (14)
ls10
highlighting10
ace-editor10
javascript10
grammars10
script10
syntax-highlighting10
linden-scripting-language10
editor9
text-editor9
css9
code-editor9
editors9
regular-expression8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ajaxorg/ace
Mar 2013 - Sep 2015
Ace (Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Doug primarily contributed to the LSL (Linden Scripting Language) code within the Ace editor project. Their work focused on enhancing the syntax highlighting rules for LSL, including adding keywords, operators, and correcting typos. The user also added and removed various constants and functions related to the Second Life platform. These changes indicate a focus on improving the editor's support for LSL script development.
hostingcloud9javascriptomsace
highlightjs/highlight.js
May 2016 - Oct 2019
JavaScript syntax highlighter with language auto-detection and zero dependencies.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Doug contributed significantly to the `highlightjs/highlight.js` repository by creating and updating LSL (Linden Scripting Language) syntax highlighting files. Their work involved defining keywords, events, functions, and constants specific to LSL. The user also focused on the correct styling for the LSL syntax, ensuring proper display within the syntax highlighting framework, demonstrating their focus on supporting additional languages.
dependencieshighlightzerosyntax-highlighterjavascript-syntax
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