Summary
Douglas Pace is a Principal Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building full-stack, DevOps-oriented systems across the JavaScript and Java ecosystems, currently driving engineering efforts at The Walt Disney Company. He combines hands-on Node.js and React development with infrastructure-as-code and platform thinking, having led teams and built reproducible deployments at Hulu and Kuali. Douglas has a track record of shipping both green-field products and maintaining complex legacy applications, pairing backend API design (REST/GraphQL) with pragmatic database work across SQL and NoSQL. As an engineering manager he fostered cross-team collaboration and improved processes that boosted quality and morale, and earlier in his career he automated campus IT workflows—saving hundreds of hours each semester. Based in Los Angeles, he brings a user-centric focus to solving complex system problems and a practical knack for turning operational pain points into reliable, automated solutions.
16 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Engineering at Northern Arizona University