Doug Brown
Software Engineering Director at Weatherford
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDoug Brown is a software engineering director based in Houston with 8+ years in leadership and a career that spans e-commerce, fintech, SaaS, retail, banking, publishing, and entertainment. He combines a UX-first background, self-taught engineering chops, and an MBA (4.0 GPA earned while directing teams) to bridge product, design, and systems thinking. Doug has led large distributed orgs (135 people across six countries) and driven large-scale monolith-to-microservices and micro-frontend transformations that cut cloud costs and build times while improving release safety. He’s pragmatic about metrics and delivery, having introduced DORA practices and contract testing to reduce failures and increase visibility. A people-first leader, he intentionally opens hiring pathways for non-traditional talent and cultivates high-trust cultures that accelerate adoption of AI tooling and continuous delivery.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, Marketing (4.0 GPA), Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, Marketing (4.0 GPA) at West Texas A&M University College of BusinessMachine Learning, Machine Learning at UdacityBS, Human Factors Psychology, BS, Human Factors Psychology at Wright State University
Github Skills (3)
nodejs5
python4
azure3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
thefinitemonkey/electronic-detective
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 78 pushes in 24 days
thefinitemonkey/udacity_mlcapstone
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
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