Douglas Manley
Senior Software Engineer at Take The Lead Dance Studio
Newark, Delaware, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDouglas Manley is a systems-minded software engineer and founder with over a decade of experience modernizing infrastructure, automating workflows, and turning prototypes into production-grade platforms. He has led engineering and DevOps efforts across startups and product teams—driving CI/CD, Kubernetes migrations, multi-tenant REST/gRPC architectures, and cloud cost/automation tooling. As CTO and senior engineer he pairs hands-on backend work (notably contributions to Jenkins plugins, Go Selenium tooling, and an SMS mass-contact platform) with product thinking to make systems simpler and more reliable. He also builds operational products from the ground up—running a cloud-based incident notification service—and applies the same efficiency-first mindset to nontechnical ventures like running a dance studio. Colleagues describe him as someone who finds system-level bottlenecks, implements controls and tests rigorously, then automates the boring parts away so teams can focus on high-impact work. Based in Newark, DE, he blends entrepreneurial grit with pragmatic engineering and an eye for improving developer and operational workflows.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Delaware Technical Community CollegeMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of DelawareFire Service, Fire Service at Delaware State Fire SchoolCecil CollegeCharter School of Wilmington
English
Github Skills (35)
jenkins-pipeline10
javascript10
webdriver10
selenium10
testing10
selenium-ide10
environment-variables10
sms10
gerrit10
java10
javas10
automation10
go10
aws10
amazon-s310
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
tebeka/selenium
May 2018 - Jul 2019
Selenium/Webdriver client for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end & Automation Engineer
Back-end & Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Douglas primarily contributed to the project by implementing and testing features related to Selenium WebDriver for Go. They added functionality to manage the X virtual frame buffer, including options for screen size, which suggests a focus on testing and environment setup. Furthermore, the user integrated support for the `goog:loggingPrefs` capability, demonstrating work to keep the project compatible with the latest versions of Chrome. They also updated the project's build system to manage browser dependencies, ensuring that ChromeDriver versions are compatible with Chrome versions.
golangautomation-testingbrowserstackgeckodriverselenium-webdriver
jenkinsci/gerrit-trigger-plugin
Jan 2018 - Feb 2019
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 31 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Douglas primarily focused on improving the functionality and stability of the Gerrit Trigger plugin. Their contributions included modifying the `GerritPluginChecker` to handle cases where the plugin status is unknown, ensuring a single bad check doesn't affect event processing. They also addressed concurrency issues within the dynamic project configuration, adding locking mechanisms to prevent race conditions. Furthermore, the user added unit tests to validate the introduced code changes.
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