Doug Neal
Board Member at Lutely
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDoug Neal is a veteran AI-focused investor and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience co-founding and managing eLab Ventures and participating in more than 30 early-stage AI investments. Based in Ann Arbor, he pairs hands-on technical roots—from early software engineering at HP and Symantec to contributions in Terraform’s AWS provider—with strategic board leadership across companies in computer vision, telecom sensing, cloud optimization, and robotics. He writes a weekly eLab AI Report tracking global AI market and investment trends, and serves on multiple boards and observer roles that keep him close to product and technical execution. Notably, his open-source work improving Terraform’s AWS resources underscores a practical fluency in infrastructure and DevOps that complements his dealmaking and founder support.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Central Michigan University
Github Skills (12)
infrastructure-as-code10
terraformer10
cloud-infrastructure10
go10
aws10
cloud-computing10
aac10
terraform10
automations9
automation9
idempotent8
test-automation8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform
Apr 2016 - Apr 2017
Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 23 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Doug contributed to the AWS provider within the Terraform project, focusing on implementing and fixing AWS-related resources. Their work involved modifying the `aws_instance` resource to handle Base64 encoding of user data and correcting import behavior of the `aws_vpc_peering_connection` resource. The user also addressed an off-by-one error in `aws_ses_receipt_rule` and implemented the new `aws_ses_domain_identity` resource with corresponding tests and documentation.
versionedconfiguration-filescloud-managementawscloud
alphagov/govuk-datascrubber
Jul 2018 - Oct 2018
Produces copies of GOV.UK backend databases with sensitive data removed
Contributions:20 PRs, 103 pushes, 24 branches in 2 months
govsensitive-datadatabasesbackendgovuk
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