Doug Friedman is a seasoned software engineering leader based in New York with 13+ years delivering distributed systems, backend services, and modern frontends using Python, Typescript, React/React Native, and C++. Currently a Team Lead at Bloomberg, he blends hands-on engineering with team coaching and a track record of performance improvements—e.g., cutting data pipeline runtimes from hours to minutes and slashing error rates in prior roles. His experience spans startups and enterprise clients, building production systems in domains from medical devices to ad scheduling and NLP-powered tooling. Fluent in both low-level systems work and product-facing UI/UX, he also brings a nontraditional background in Spanish literature and linguistics that informs clear communication and cross-functional collaboration.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA Spanish Literature and Linguistics, BA Spanish Literature and Linguistics at University of Maryland
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