Doug Collier
Sr. Director, Engineering at Tigera
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarDoug Collier is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years in senior technical roles and over a decade building cloud-native and SaaS products, currently serving as Sr. Director of Engineering at Tigera where he led the ground-up creation of Calico Cloud. He blends hands-on Go/Kubernetes expertise with product-focused leadership, driving Calico’s full-stack observability and an AI R&D initiative around Kubernetes security. Doug has repeatedly scaled teams and services from startup to production for high-impact customers, and his work touches infrastructure that powers over 100M containers globally. Based in San Francisco, he’s known for pairing pragmatic engineering with long-term platform vision—comfortable rolling up his sleeves in code while shaping roadmaps and security-sensitive distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (53)
kubernetes-cli10
networking10
security10
golang10
k8s10
react10
calico10
ebpf9
sdn9
javascript9
kubernetes9
virtual-network9
kubernetes-operator9
windows9
cni9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
doucol/operator
Jun 2020 - Mar 2025
Kubernetes operator for installing Calico and Calico Enterprise
Contributions:69 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years 9 months
installingoperatorkubernetescalicokubernetes-operator
doucol/clyde
Feb 2025 - Apr 2025
Contributions:119 pushes, 2 branches, 5 tags in 1 month
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