Douglas Jones
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Squarespace
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDouglas Jones is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 15+ years building web-scale platforms, most notably a 13-year tenure at Squarespace where he helped rebuild the core hosting and CMS product and pioneered the company’s microservices and service-mesh approaches. He combines deep distributed-systems and backend expertise (Go, Java 8+, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, Zookeeper/Consul) with practical experience in traffic routing, caching, and core platform architecture. His background includes research-driven work on processor simulation and DSP algorithms, reflecting strong applied CS fundamentals from an M.S. in Computer Science. Douglas contributes to open-source tooling for MongoDB via Morphia, improving query functionality and code quality, and brings rare full-stack chops from earlier JavaScript/HTML/CSS work to inform platform-facing design decisions. Based in Atlanta, he’s a technical leader who balances hands-on implementation with shaping system-level reliability and developer ergonomics.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at Drexel University
Github Skills (6)
javas10
querying10
mongodb10
java10
mongodb-database10
testing10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
MorphiaOrg/morphia
Feb 2014 - Feb 2014
MongoDB object-document mapper in Java based on https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-java-driver
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 7 commits, 1 PR in 5 days
Contributions summary:Douglas contributed to implementing and refining the `max` and `min` features within the Morphia library, an object-document mapper for MongoDB. Their work included adding new methods to the `Query` interface, modifying the `QueryImpl` class to support these features, and updating test cases to validate the functionality and ensure proper index usage. The user also addressed style violations and improved code documentation, enhancing the library's usability and adherence to coding standards.
mongo-java-drivermongokotlindocument-mappermapper
Squarespace/envoy
Apr 2018 - Dec 2019
C++ front/service proxy
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 1 year 8 months
cppservice-proxyproxy
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