Douglas Meehan
Director Of Design at Test/Plot Studio
Village of Brightwaters, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDouglas Meehan is a Director of Product Design with 13 years of experience shaping B2B SaaS and complex systems, currently leading design at Citrine Informatics while running a freelance studio focused on interfaces between virtual and physical worlds. He blends strategic product design leadership with hands-on front-end and back-end engineering—originating open-source mapping tools and contributing GeoDjango support and refactors to well-used Django geographic libraries. His background in landscape architecture and city planning informs a systems-thinking approach to user experience, turning complex institutional requirements into discoverable, scalable design systems. Douglas has founded and scaled mission-driven products (Possible City) and built reusable component libraries for healthcare and social service platforms, demonstrating both entrepreneurial grit and delivery discipline. Colleagues rely on him to translate interdisciplinary constraints into practical, maintainable solutions that bridge data, geography, and human-centered design. Based in Brightwaters, NY, he pairs academic training from Georgetown and UPenn with a rare mix of spatial design and software engineering.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Psychology, BA, Psychology at Georgetown UniversityStuart Weitzman School of Design: Master of Landcape Architecture, Master of City Planning, Landscape Architecture, City Planning, Stuart Weitzman School of Design: Master of Landcape Architecture, Master of City Planning, Landscape Architecture, City Planning at University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (16)
django-rest10
serializer10
object-oriented-programming10
back-end-development10
geojson10
python10
geodjango10
django10
django-rest-framework10
database-design9
github8
detailview6
forms6
inlineformset6
background-process6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openwisp/django-rest-framework-gis
Feb 2013 - Aug 2014
Geographic add-ons for Django REST Framework. Maintained by the OpenWISP Project.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:77 commits, 1 branch, 3 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Douglas primarily contributed to the `django-rest-framework-gis` repository by developing and refactoring back-end components. Their work included implementing serializers and fields for handling GeoDjango data, creating a GeoJSON parser, and enhancing the GeoFeatureModelSerializer to format data as GeoJSON features and feature collections. The user also added documentation and made improvements to ensure geo_field inclusion in various scenarios.
openwisppythonadd-onsdjango-rest-frameworkdjango
jazzband/django-model-utils
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
Django model mixins and utilities.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Douglas primarily focused on enhancing the `django-model-utils` library by adding and refining features related to custom manager functionality. Their work included adding support for GeoDjango's `GeoManager`, abstracting managers for broader applicability, and refactoring existing code for improved clarity and maintainability. Key changes involved modifying class names and docstrings to enhance code readability and usability. The user also removed GeoDjango-specific code, making the managers more generic.
pythonmixinsdjangodjango-modeldjango-admin
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