Doug Van Horn
Principal Engineer at Outside
Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDoug Van Horn is a Principal Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building and scaling web and cloud-native systems, currently driving architecture and delivery across product lines at Outside. He blends deep technical leadership—writing RFCs, proofs-of-concept, and production code—with operational chops in CI/CD, observability (Datadog, Sentry), and cloud migrations across AWS and GCP. Doug has led engineering organizations as a CTO through hypergrowth, aligning tech strategy with business outcomes while growing teams and migrating multi-datacenter infrastructures to AWS. Comfortable as a Swiss Army Knife for companies, he repeatedly selects stacks, stands up platforms (Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform), and embeds with teams to diagnose and fix thorny issues. Based in Missouri, he combines an engineer’s pragmatism (“a guy who writes code”) with executive experience delivering measurable revenue and operational improvements.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Business Administration, Bachelor of Arts Business Administration at Whittier CollegeMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Washington University in St. LouisAerospace Engineering, Aerospace Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
English, french (un peu)
Github Skills (22)
listings9
bootstrap7
django7
python7
tarantool5
api5
magento4
ftp-client4
edi4
reverse-engineering4
file-transfer3
ftps3
relic3
ftp2
leiningen2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dougvanhorn/pbslm-search-demo
Jul 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 1 push in 1 year 2 months
dougvanhorn/python-magento
Mar 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 8 months
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