Douglas Potts
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Sierra Nevada Corporation
Dayton, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolDouglas Potts is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 25 years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and testing embedded systems and webserver UIs, currently leading advanced software efforts at Sierra Nevada Corporation. He has deep expertise integrating hardware and software for system development and testing, and has implemented Continuous Integration pipelines (Jenkins) for production teams. His background spans storage protocol work and CI management at Hewlett-Packard to long-term embedded systems roles earlier in his career, reflecting both individual technical depth and leadership in engineering operations. An active open-source contributor in the Vim community, he authored the popular Potts colorscheme and a ClearCase plugin and contributed patches that shaped Vim in the 2000s. Based in Dayton, Ohio, he combines formal graduate training in computer engineering with practical systems engineering across aerospace, robotics, and enterprise storage domains. One less obvious strength: he blends low-level embedded design fluency with developer-facing tooling and workflows, making him equally at home shipping firmware or optimizing developer productivity.
24 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Oakland UniversityMaster of Science, Computer Engineering, Master of Science, Computer Engineering at Wright State University
English
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Github Skills (17)
clearcase8
perl5
atlassian5
scripting5
jira4
python4
bitbucket3
bitbucket-pipelines3
console3
java2
buffer2
socketcan2
zero-copy1
evernote1
kernel1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pottsdl/SimpleSearch
Jul 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:27 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
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