Doug Russell
Village of New Hartford, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarDoug Russell is an experienced iOS and macOS engineer with a decade of professional experience focused on concurrency, network programming, and accessibility. He has shipped platform work at Apple (macOS Accessibility), led accessibility initiatives at Slack, and contributed broadly across Apple-platform apps at Flexibits. Beyond client apps, he has backend and security chops demonstrated by substantive contributions to Nebula, improving VPN security and network configurability. Comfortable diving into uncharted technical areas, he pairs rigorous study with hands-on problem solving and mentorship from early career roles through staff-level positions. Based in New Hartford, NY, he brings a blend of deep platform expertise and pragmatic security-minded engineering to cross-disciplinary projects.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
go10
vpn10
network-programming10
cryptography10
security10
configuration-management9
testing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
slackhq/nebula
Jul 2020 - Dec 2021
A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:39 reviews, 18 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Doug contributed significantly to the core functionality and security of the Nebula project. They refactored the interface type and added a disabled tun, enhancing network configuration flexibility. Furthermore, they addressed security concerns by restricting SSH port access and improved the CA certificate handling with blocklisting, and added support for expired certificates. These changes reflect a focus on both network performance and secure operation of the VPN.
scalablesecuritynetworkingoverlayperformance
forfuncsake/go
May 2018 - Oct 2023
The Go programming language
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 5 months
golanggogopluscompilerprogramming-language
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