Douglas B
Senior Software Engineer at Indeed.com
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolDouglas B is a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years building distributed systems and large-scale data platforms, currently operating Imhotep and IQL at Indeed—analytics infrastructure that spans hundreds of Kubernetes pods and processes petabyte-scale data. He focuses on backend systems, high-throughput data pipelines, and distributed processing, with hands-on experience in Kafka, SQS, async workers, batch jobs, and cross-team production rollouts. His background spans startups and enterprise products across Ireland, Japan, and remote roles, including building shared React component libraries and Spring Boot integrations for travel inventory. Known for owning on-call incident response and coordinating stakeholders through complex system design, he also led user-data sanitization across millions of distributed shards—an often overlooked but critical reliability and privacy effort. Based in Tokyo, Douglas combines pragmatic engineering with a strong operational mindset, translating large-scale technical challenges into reliable, maintainable systems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Business Information Systems, Business Information Systems at National College of IrelandAssociate’s Degree, Information Technology, Associate’s Degree, Information Technology at CCT College DublinEstácio de Sá University
Portuguese, English, Japanese
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Github Skills (161)
testing10
javascript-api10
javascript10
api10
user-interaction10
trend10
dom10
npm10
facebook10
react10
simulate9
react-components9
whisper9
create-react-native-app9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dougbacelar/chaser
Oct 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:41 commits, 41 pushes, 12 branches in 8 months
dougbacelar/methodcall
Nov 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:65 PRs, 95 pushes, 63 branches in 2 years 3 months
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