Doug Koch
President Helping You Fill Specific IT Positions You're Looking For - FAST at Link Engineering Resources, Inc.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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SeniorDoug Koch is the founder and president of Link Engineering Resources, a Minneapolis-based recruiting firm with over 20 years’ experience rapidly placing premium IT talent across the Midwest and beyond. He specializes in matching technical roles—software engineers, DevOps, data architects and more—with candidates who combine the right skills, attitude, and long-term fit, prioritizing permanent placements over quick resume swaps. Doug pairs deep recruiting expertise with hands-on familiarity of developer workflows, evidenced by contributions to the popular bazel-watcher project that improved build reliability and tooling ergonomics. His approach emphasizes speed and precision: understanding technical requirements thoroughly to reduce time-to-hire without sacrificing quality. Clients benefit from his broad network and an owner-led service model that still engages directly in candidate identification and screening.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
automation10
build-system10
automations10
go10
fastly10
bazel10
fastest10
testing9
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bazelbuild/bazel-watcher
Jun 2017 - Dec 2018
Tools for building Bazel targets when source files change.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Automation Engineer
Back-end & Automation EngineerContributions:27 commits, 30 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Doug made several contributions focused on improving the functionality and robustness of `ibazel-watcher`. They implemented features like supporting multiple target patterns and adding a flag for debounce delay. Additionally, they addressed build process reliability through changes like catching SIGTERM instead of SIGKILL and uncrossing stdout and stderr buffers. These changes collectively enhance the build process and user experience.
bazelstarlarktargetsbazel-rulessource-files
dougkoch/bazel-watcher
May 2017 - Dec 2018
Tools for building Bazel targets when source files change.
Contributions:53 pushes, 26 branches, 2 tags in 1 year 6 months
bazelstarlarktargetsbazel-rulessource-files
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