Doug Hughes
Senior Software Engineer at ezCater
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDoug Hughes is a senior software engineer in Chapel Hill with over two decades of programming experience and more than a decade in focused professional roles, known for leading cross-team initiatives that improve operational reliability, compliance, and customer experience at scale. He combines hands-on engineering and technical leadership—shipping GDPR/CCPA automation, real-time voice transcription for AI-assisted support, and end-to-end delivery tracking systems—while balancing business outcomes, resilience, and maintainability. As a former founder and consultant he built APIs, automation, and infrastructure for clients ranging from banks to Mailchimp, and he has a track record of modernizing monoliths, consolidating business logic, and removing legacy cruft. Comfortable across the stack, Doug teaches and mentors (former bootcamp instructor) and prefers pragmatic solutions that scale without customer disruption.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Arizona State UniversityArt, Design and Multimedia, Computer Animation and Multimedia, Art, Design and Multimedia, Computer Animation and Multimedia at Lansing Community CollegeVarious classes that interest me, Various classes that interest me at Coursera
Github Skills (83)
mailchimp-api-v310
api9
mailchimp9
mailchimp-api9
spotify9
auto-generate9
sketchup8
html8
activerecord8
ruby-on-rails8
pronto8
mvc8
ruby8
beautifier8
mruby8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dhughes/is_this_used
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Provides a utility that facilitates tracking if specific methods are being used or not in your Rails application.
Contributions:4 reviews, 45 commits, 21 PRs in 3 months
railsrails-applicationrubytrackingfacilitates
dhughes/mailchimp-marketing-ruby
Jan 2021 - May 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 4 months
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