Doug Davis
Living The Dream at Coaching Little League at West Raleigh Baseball
United States
Summary
🤩
RockstarDoug Davis is a cloud-native architect and technical product leader with 11 years of focused experience building and shaping microservices, serverless, and messaging platforms at enterprise scale. He has held senior roles at Microsoft and IBM where he combined hands-on engineering, product strategy, and developer advocacy to influence projects like Knative, CloudEvents, and the Open Service Broker ecosystem. A pragmatic back-end and DevOps engineer, Doug contributes to high-profile open-source efforts—improving verification tooling for the CloudEvents spec and hardening build and deployment workflows for Kubernetes service catalog projects. He is comfortable bridging technical and product teams, driving code generation, CI/CD improvements, and API testing practices that reduce friction for adopters. Based in the United States, Doug pairs deep infrastructure expertise with community leadership through CNCF working groups, and off hours he coaches Little League, reflecting his collaborative, mentorship-driven approach.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
python10
scripting10
script10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
shell10
code-generation9
serverless9
markdown-it8
makefile8
markdown8
api-design8
docker6
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
cloudevents/spec
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
CloudEvents Specification
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 releases, 887 reviews, 94 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Doug primarily focused on improving the tools used for verifying the CloudEvents specification. Their contributions included fixing link checkers, addressing case sensitivity issues in the verification process, and refining the process for validating URLs. They also made updates to the underlying Python verification scripts to improve reliability and support for additional hosts, indicating involvement in maintaining the project's infrastructure. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to capitalization and general code cleanup to ensure clarity and consistency within the specification.
specificationserverlesscloudeventsalibabacloud
kubernetes-retired/service-catalog
Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
Consume services in Kubernetes using the Open Service Broker API
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 releases, 28 commits, 201 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Doug Davis primarily contributed to the codebase by focusing on cleanup tasks, code generation, and making improvements to build and deployment processes. His work included refactoring code, fixing paths, and adding improvements to the Makefile and linting processes. He also added code generation related to deepcopy and defaulter features. Davis also addressed API definition and testing aspects within the Broker server code.
apibrokeropen-service-broker-apibroker-apiconsume
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.