Summary
Doug Steigerwald is a Senior Software Developer with 14 years of experience building cloud-native and distributed systems, currently leading a Go libraries team and co-maintaining the open-source message broker arke. Based in Holly Springs, NC, he drives production services at SAS using Go, gRPC, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, and Redis while previously architecting cloud infrastructure and automation across AWS, VMware, Puppet, Ansible, BOSH and Cloud Foundry. His background spans high-traffic publishing systems, search migrations to Solr, and scalable backend work in Python, Perl, Ruby and Cassandra, giving him deep operational and full-stack systems expertise. Pragmatic and hands-on, he blends systems engineering with open-source stewardship, often favoring small, reliable libraries that simplify complex distributed messaging problems.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University