Douglas Bowen
Manager Cloud Services at GfK
Hersbruck, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDouglas Bowen is a cloud services manager and former VMware consultant with eight years of focused experience modernizing IT operations and disaster recovery for enterprise clients. Based in Hersbruck, Bavaria, he blends strong ITIL and enterprise architecture discipline with hands-on platform work, leading cloud strategy and service delivery at GfK. Earlier roles include deep VMware consultancy and a decade managing application development, giving him rare insight across infrastructure, operations and development lifecycles. An active software engineer and open-source front-end contributor, he has improved a React-based regex visualizer, showing he still writes and ships UI code while steering cloud programs. Trained in applied and environmental geology, he brings a pragmatic, analytical mindset to complex technical problems and risk management.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Applied and Environmental Geology, BSc Applied and Environmental Geology at University of Birmingham
Github Skills (7)
typescript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
react-router-dom9
pwapp7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Bowen7/regex-vis
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
🎨 Regex visualizer & editor
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 448 commits, 155 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Douglas implemented new features and made improvements to the React-based user interface of the regex visualizer and editor. They used create-react-app to initialize the project and made modifications to index.html, src/index.css, src/index.tsx, and src/App.tsx. They also integrated react-router-dom for navigation and react-draggable to enable drag and drop functionality.
reactregexvisualizertsxreactjs
Bowen7/react-rough-fiber
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
A React renderer for rendering hand-drawn SVGs.
Contributions:4 releases, 7 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 10 months
hand-drawnhand-drawn-graphsreactreact-rendererroughjs
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