Summary
Doug Grubba is a pragmatic full stack engineer and technical lead with over 14 years building and scaling SaaS platforms from initial architecture to production. He combines deep JavaScript front-end expertise (React, Vue, Angular) with PHP back-end experience (Laravel, Symfony) and cloud-native deployments on GCP, AWS, and Heroku. Doug has led cross-functional teams and shipped end-to-end products in startups and growth-stage companies, including driving a modern private markets platform and founding the core code for Payzerware. Known for balancing hands-on coding with people leadership, he often splits time between shipping features and mentoring engineers. Based in Charlotte, NC, he brings a GIS-informed systems perspective from an early geography background, which shows up in pragmatic, data-oriented design choices.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Geography, BS, Geography at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater