Doug Felt
Unemployed
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDoug Felt is a senior software engineer with 26 years of experience specializing in C++, Java, object-oriented design, Unicode, internationalization, and text editing. He led and contributed to cornerstone open-source projects like ICU4J and CLDR, and has maintained core ICU and Noto Emoji repositories, demonstrating deep domain expertise in locale and font tooling. His career spans major platforms and companies including Google and IBM, where he worked on both system-level and application/UI code. Based in Menlo Park, he combines hands-on coding with project stewardship, often focusing on maintenance, licensing hygiene, and tooling that keeps global text infrastructure reliable. Colleagues rely on him for careful refactors and conversions—examples include LDML-to-ICU conversions and SVG glyph generation for region-flag emoji. Currently open to opportunities, he brings rare, narrow expertise at the intersection of Unicode standards and production software engineering.
26 years of coding experience
38 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford University
Stackoverflow
315reputation
50kreached
2answers
3questions
Github Skills (21)
maintenance10
c-language10
fonts10
codebase10
java10
javas10
font-face10
svg10
cldr10
icu10
html10
cprogramming-language10
licensing9
python9
unicode9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
googlefonts/noto-emoji
Feb 2015 - Mar 2019
Noto Emoji fonts
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 298 commits, 203 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Doug was primarily involved in the development and maintenance of the Noto Emoji fonts within the googlefonts/noto-emoji repository. Their work included merging font and HTML test file generation, optimizing SVG transforms, and modifying the HTML format. They contributed to the addition of SVG glyphs and related components for building and displaying the emoji fonts, especially those with region-flag-based sequences. Further, the user made changes to the structure, generation, and display of the resources.
emojinoto-emojifontsnotounicode
unicode-org/icu
May 2000 - Feb 2012
The home of the ICU project source code.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:798 commits in 11 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Doug's commits focus on updating and refining the copyright notices across various source code files within the ICU project. They primarily involved modifying existing files, indicating a focus on codebase maintenance and adherence to legal and licensing requirements. The edits were targeted at the ICU4C project, focusing on files within the core and test areas.
cppc-plus-plusicu4cunicode-consortiumicu4j
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