Doug Clark
Allen, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDoug Clark is a senior software development executive with 11 years of experience building and scaling product and engineering organizations, primarily in corporate travel automation and SaaS. He blends hands-on technical depth—spanning cloud migrations, microservices, DevOps, Go, .NET, and large-scale data privacy work—with strategic product leadership that drove a bootstrapped startup from 2 to 65 people and 200% growth in two years. He has led major platform transitions and integrations, including the technical delivery for an SAP/Concur acquisition and GDPR remediation across tens of millions of lines of code, while achieving 99.95% uptime and rapid MTTD improvements. A practical architect and operator, Doug owns the full product lifecycle, balancing customer needs, reuse, cost, and time-to-market to enable rapid iteration. He also contributes to open source—implementing a full-featured .NET-style regex engine in Go—demonstrating a willingness to tackle complex algorithmic problems beyond his executive remit. Based in Allen, Texas, he is known for creating award-winning cultures and aligning global teams around a shared technical vision.
11 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
Github Skills (3)
regular-expression10
go10
testing10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dlclark/regexp2
Dec 2015 - Jul 2022
A full-featured regex engine in pure Go based on the .NET engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 62 commits, 17 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Doug primarily focused on building out the core functionality of the regular expression engine. The contributions involved fleshing out the API, implementing features, and adding comprehensive test cases. The user made several fixes, addressing issues related to the state machine and handling various parsing edge cases within the regular expression engine.
golangfull-featuredregexregex-engineregular-expression-engine
dlclark/regexp2cg
Jul 2024 - Feb 2025
Static Regexp code generation in pure Go
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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