Doug Luce
Founder at Jigsaw Renaissance
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDoug Luce is a founder-turned-software engineer based in Seattle with 14 years of professional experience building startups, leading small teams, and shipping systems-level software. He has founded multiple companies including an ISP, a professional services firm that handled critical technical emergencies, and a WiFi operator whose business was acquired in 2008, and today is designing a new hardware server platform. His background spans kernel and file-system development at Isilon and IBM Research, high-performance networking work with SCinet, and practical DevOps contributions to major open-source projects like Ansible. Doug combines hands-on coding (C and Python), infrastructure design, and customer-facing product and fundraising experience, giving him an uncommon perspective as both individual contributor and former boss. He advises startups and clients on technical strategy while quietly building the “next big thing,” with a specialty in getting things done under pressure.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Science, Diploma, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (11)
system-administration10
cron10
ansible-galaxy10
python10
ansible10
devops9
aws9
automation9
automations9
debug8
fest5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Mar 2015 - May 2016
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 21 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Doug focused on improving the Ansible core functionality and module development. They addressed an S3 region availability issue within the AWS module, demonstrating knowledge of cloud integration and exception handling. Furthermore, the user added a new module named `cronvar` that manages cron environment variables, showcasing a deep understanding of system administration and scripting in Python, and they also implemented some refactoring.
everythingpythonit-automationdevopsdeployment
dougluce/ansible
Mar 2016 - Jun 2017
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy. Avoid writing scripts or custom code to deploy and update your applications— automate in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems.
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
pythonit-automationdevopsansibleplain-english
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