Doug Knight
Senior Software Engineer at Vimeo
Plano, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDoug Knight is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building robust, modular enterprise systems using Ruby on Rails, Clojure, and the Microsoft stack. He has delivered production software across consumer and enterprise domains at companies including Vimeo, Priceline, Groupon, and LivingSocial, with a focus on long-lived, maintainable architectures. Comfortable across full-stack development, Doug blends object-oriented and functional programming practices to solve complex problems and improve system longevity. He has a track record of stepping into varied environments—from startups to large product teams—and rapidly contributing to critical systems. Based in Plano, Texas, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset rooted in both modern web frameworks and traditional Microsoft technologies, informed by an unconventional background in jazz studies that supports creative problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BM Jazz studies, BM Jazz studies at University of North Texas
English, Russian, Spanish
Github Skills (28)
leiningen10
babashka10
mongoose9
snyk9
datomic9
redo9
undo-redo9
openvas9
risk-assessment9
vulnerabilities8
double8
static-analysis7
mongoid7
mongodb6
react6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dgknght/last-card
Jul 2020 - Aug 2021
Card game web application
Contributions:9 PRs, 32 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 1 month
web-applicationweb-gamecard-game
dgknght/app-lib
Mar 2021 - Mar 2025
Clojure(Script) library with general purposes utility functions
Contributions:56 PRs, 283 pushes, 131 branches in 4 years 1 month
utility-functionsclojurescriptclojurebabashkaclojure-script
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