Summary
Doug Cahill is a versatile software engineer with 11+ years of experience building and tuning large-scale infrastructure, currently contributing to Google after senior roles at Actifio and EMC. He blends hands-on software development in Python, Java, and C# with deep expertise in VMware vSphere, SAN/NAS storage, and enterprise Linux deployment automation. Doug has repeatedly owned performance and scalability efforts—authoring guidelines, constructing test environments, and optimizing both bare metal and virtualized systems. His background spans full lifecycle infrastructure work from custom CentOS kickstart builds and RPM packaging to Jenkins-driven CI and DRBD-based replication. Known for bridging hardware and software concerns, he brings uncommon fluency in storage performance engineering alongside practical tooling that streamlines product deployment and operations.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Communications/Multimedia, BS, Communications/Multimedia at Fitchburg State College
Master of Software Engineering, 4.0, Master of Software Engineering, 4.0 at Brandeis University