Douglas Land
Director Of Platform Engineering
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDouglas Land is a pragmatic platform and SRE leader with 13 years of experience building resilient, automated infrastructure and developer tooling from Austin, Texas. He specializes in translating business goals into operational requirements, increasing throughput and stability through automation, observability, and security-by-design. Douglas has led platform and operations teams across startups and mid-size companies, driving cloud-native architectures, CI/CD, and scalable incident practices. He’s comfortable both writing tooling and shaping long-term strategy, with hands-on experience in Terraform, Kubernetes, Prometheus, and AWS from roles spanning Site Reliability to Director of Platform Engineering. Notably, he pairs critical-thinking simplification—stripping problems to their core—with a track record of embedding best practices so teams can move faster without sacrificing reliability.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (101)
rundeck10
vault10
maintenance10
kubernetes-service10
scheduler9
runbook9
ansible9
service-discovery9
operation9
visualizations9
tosca9
kibana9
snmp9
iptables9
api-gateway9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
looprock/openvpn_gsuite_auth
Oct 2019 - Feb 2024
An openvpn plugin to support authorization against GSuite and authentication against a dynamodb instance
Contributions:4 PRs, 46 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
authorizationauthenticationgsuiteopenvpn-plugindynamodb
looprock/slack-gateway
Oct 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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