Doug Black is a founder and CEO with 10+ years building digital products and leading cross-functional teams from startups to enterprise clients. He combines hands-on full‑stack development (Laravel, Vue, PHP, ExpressionEngine) with leadership in strategy, coaching, and operational infrastructure—often stepping into chaotic codebases to modernize legacy systems and automate growth. Doug founded tripleNERDscore to deliver pragmatic web and mobile solutions, API integrations, SEO, and dev-team-as-a-service while mentoring leaders and teams for sustainable impact. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved core CMS functionality and API clients (notably enhancements to the Podio PHP client and ExpressionEngine), demonstrating a knack for practical, extensible fixes. His background in program management and recovery coaching gives him unusual strength in building resilient teams and processes alongside technology.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Bible (Youth Ministry Concentration), 3.8, Bachelor of Arts, Bible (Youth Ministry Concentration), 3.8 at University of Valley Forge
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Western Wayne High School
ExpressionEngine is a flexible, feature-rich, free open-source content management platform that empowers hundreds of thousands of individuals and organizations around the world to easily manage their web site.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:14 reviews, 181 commits, 51 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Doug primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the ExpressionEngine CMS. Their contributions included correcting variable names, addressing issues with the system's online state during updates, and adding features such as a CLI add-on generator. They also made modifications to the codebase, including adding rows and columns to the textarea and integrating an idle login feature. Additionally, the user updated the RTE with Redactor and implemented various hooks within the fluid field, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the core functionality and extensibility of the platform.
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 2 months
Contributions summary:Doug primarily focused on modifying and extending the `PodioItem` model within the PHP client for the Podio API. They added a new method, `get_item_values`, to retrieve item values and updated the code by integrating a merge from the upstream master branch. Furthermore, the user fixed the HTTP protocol setting in the Podio class to ensure correct API interactions, indicating involvement with the core client functionality. These changes suggest a focus on enhancing data retrieval and API interaction capabilities.
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