Doug Estey
Product Engineer at Verto
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDoug Estey is a product engineer with 11 years of experience building full‑stack Ruby/Rails and JavaScript solutions for startups and product teams, currently helping shape a financial platform at Verto. He blends design sensibility and engineering rigor to deliver accessible end-to-end experiences, from mobile apps and design systems to developer-facing SDKs. Doug has led small cross‑functional teams as a CTO and Technology Lead, owning architecture, rapid prototyping, and DevOps improvements while balancing speed with responsible code. Based in Old Toronto, he focuses on making software approachable — “usable by my mom” — and has a knack for translating design intent into robust front-end implementations. His background in multimedia and photography informs a strong visual language that shows up in platform design and UX decisions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at University of New BrunswickPhotography, Photography at New Brunswick College of Craft and Design
French, English
Github Skills (160)
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
eve10
ember10
isolation10
javascript10
html10
phonegap-plugin10
flying10
angular10
facebook-messenger10
storybook-addon10
typescript10
vue10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
dougestey/straylight-systems
Mar 2018 - Mar 2025
A blog/wiki for Straylight Systems
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 5 branches in 7 years
wikimarkdown
dougestey/sentinel
Feb 2018 - Feb 2019
A WebSocket-compatible fleet tracker for EVE Online.
Contributions:13 releases, 113 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year
trackereverustwebsocketfleet
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