Doug Drechsel
Database Developer Evangelist
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDoug Drechsel is a seasoned database and cloud-native platform engineer with over three decades in software development and nine years of focused experience driving developer adoption and product features at Oracle. As Database Developer Evangelist he helps teams leverage Container Databases to solve business challenges, building on a deep history of designing installers, modular architectures, and Kubernetes-native add-ons. His background spans hands-on development of Verrazzano, Istio integrations, Prometheus metric collection, and Go-based operators and services, plus leadership of teams optimizing WebLogic for cloud and container environments. Doug’s career began in systems and C++ work for enterprise financial systems, giving him a practical grounding in performance and backward compatibility that still informs his cloud-native designs. He combines architectural rigor with developer advocacy, and has a track record of turning legacy installers and servers into modular, metadata-driven systems that improved startup performance and operational flexibility. Based in New Jersey, he holds a B.S. in Computer and Information Science with a minor in Applied Mathematics, graduating Magna Cum Laude.
9 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Major in Computer and Information Science Minor in Applied Mathematics, Graduated Magna cum Laude - Overall G.P.A.: 3.76, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Major in Computer and Information Science Minor in Applied Mathematics, Graduated Magna cum Laude - Overall G.P.A.: 3.76 at New Jersey Institute of Technology
Github Skills (70)
expressjs10
messaging10
rest-api10
backend10
relay10
javascript10
mbaas10
graphql-api10
parse-platform10
parse-server10
deploying10
oracle-database10
object-storage10
graphql-relay10
nodejs10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ddrechse/parse-server-database-adapter-template
Oct 2023 - Mar 2024
A template repository for a database adapter for Parse Server.
Contributions:272 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
oracle-samples/oracleadapter-parse
Oct 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 reviews, 34 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year
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