Douglas Fields
Engineering Compliance at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDouglas Fields is an engineering leader and repeat founder with two decades of experience building secure, scalable distributed systems and fintech products from startup to acquisition. He combines hands-on backend architecture and coding (LISP and Haskell user since 1990) with proven operational leadership—scaling teams globally, instituting CI/CD and modern DevOps, and guiding products through audits, GDPR and security compliance. His background spans high-performance trading and risk systems, blockchain-enabled real estate fintech, and large-scale messaging and e‑commerce platforms that handled billions of emails monthly. At companies from his own startups to Mastercard and Google, he’s led cross-functional teams to deliver elegant, fault-tolerant systems while mentoring engineers. Notably, he built Puresend into a profitable exit and has repeatedly re-architected legacy systems into continuous-delivery engines that improved throughput, reliability and monitoring.
9 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
H.S., High School, H.S., High School at Brunswick SchoolBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Yale UniversityMBA, Management, MBA, Management at NYU Stern School of BusinessNorth Street School
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Github Skills (95)
clasp10
common-lisp10
lisp-interpreter9
lisp9
game-development8
rpn8
class-library8
listener8
extension-methods8
typescript8
reflection8
game-engine7
altium-designer7
calculator7
jam7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
LispEngineer/aiband
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:1 release, 107 commits, 44 pushes in 1 month
LispEngineer/genera-src
Jul 2016 - May 2021
Contributions:179 commits, 134 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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