Douglas Patterson
Engineering Manager at Nclusion
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolDouglas Patterson is an engineering manager and former founding engineer with a Ph.D. in Philosophical Logic and over a decade of hands-on full-stack experience building fintech and consumer platforms. He led core architecture and backend systems at Nclusion and Porter—scaling teams from seed-stage to dozens of engineers while shipping Node.js/TypeScript services, React Native POS apps, and complex data pipelines. Deep expertise in MongoDB modeling and performance, realtime messaging, and multi-cloud deployments (GCP/AWS) is matched by practical CI/CD and containerization experience. Before industry, he taught and published in logic and linguistics for ten years, a background that informs his rigorous approach to system design and mentorship. He also maintains an ed-tech side project, the Logic Resource Center, evidencing a sustained commitment to teaching and building reusable developer-facing tools. Based in Redwood City, he combines startup founding grit with academic rigor to solve high-stakes engineering and product problems.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BA Philosophy, BA Philosophy at Reed CollegePh. D Philosophy, Ph. D Philosophy at University of Pittsburgh
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Github Skills (29)
callback10
dsl9
async-await9
feathersjs8
api8
browser8
javascript8
nodejs8
searchkit8
async8
react-native7
typescript7
websocket7
react7
mongodb6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
doug-patterson/FMR-SearchKit-React
Nov 2022 - Jul 2023
React components for use with the FMR-SearchKit Feathers-MongoDB search service
Contributions:10 reviews, 26 PRs, 150 pushes in 8 months
reactsearchkitsearch-servicefeathersreact-components
doug-patterson/FMR-SearchKit
Nov 2022 - Nov 2023
Build rich mongodb search interfaces with cross collection lookups all while preserving the security and business logic in your FeathersJS hooks
Contributions:6 releases, 18 PRs, 107 pushes in 1 year
securitybusiness-logicinterfaceshooksfeathersjs
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