Doug Sheffer
Senior Software Engineer at GUDEA
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolDoug Sheffer is a senior software engineer based in Durham, NC, with over a decade of experience building backend systems and APIs, and more than 15 years in software engineering overall. He currently focuses on tools to analyze information diffusion across social networks and leads API development for AI/ML automation workflows. His background spans building high-throughput eCommerce platforms, cross-language ML orchestration using Temporal.io, and scalable microservice monitoring and autoscaling in production. Doug has repeatedly bridged research and product environments—creating enterprise training and project systems at a national lab before shipping commercial services that process thousands of orders weekly. He brings hands-on expertise across Python, Java, C#, PHP, AWS, and containerized CI/CD pipelines, and is comfortable translating cross-team requirements into reliable, deployable systems. Colleagues recognize him for technical leadership that balances shipping features, reducing technical debt, and mentoring engineers.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Michigan State University
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Github Skills (47)
sessionstorage10
keyboard-layout6
asp-net6
php6
layout6
jquery6
javascript6
webassembly5
aws5
keyboard5
java5
airbrake5
guzzle5
nvim-cmp5
storage5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
desheffer/dvorak.ninja
Feb 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:201 commits, 1 PR, 118 pushes in 1 year 8 months
reactgamespeedlayoutmeasuring
desheffer/nix-config
May 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:476 pushes, 85 branches in 2 years 10 months
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