Summary
Doug Mayer is a Principal Software Engineer and hands-on technical leader with over a decade of experience building products from startup to exit and scaling engineering teams across startups and large enterprises. He co-founded and served as CTO of a K–12 edtech platform that reached customers in all 50 US states and multiple countries, personally authoring the initial product code and later architecting the operations and engineering org. Doug is a polyglot full-stack engineer who blends pragmatic architecture, APIs, and DevOps—comfortable in Go, Rails, cloud and bare-metal environments—and has repeatedly introduced process improvements like CI, Kanban, and test-driven practices. As a strategic partner and troublemaker, he moves between coding, product roadmaps, and mentoring, with hands-on experience as a DBA, network/operator, and product owner. Based in Chicago, he currently holds principal roles at HubiFi and 201codes, combining entrepreneurial grit with an emphasis on reliable, well-designed systems.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer