Douglas Reith
Principal Data Solution Architect
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolDouglas Reith is a Principal Data Solution Architect based in Melbourne with over a decade of hands-on experience building data platforms, streaming pipelines, and observability practices for fast-moving financial and product organisations. He combines strategic leadership—shaping data strategy, vendor consolidation, and budgets—with a doer’s mindset, personally delivering hundreds of development and support tickets while building onshore and offshore teams. At Pepperstone he led a language migration from PHP to Go, standardised monitoring/observability, and orchestrated complex data architecture changes that underpin high-volume trading systems. A former CTO and founder, he brings startup pragmatism to enterprise problems, advocating transparent communication, continuous learning, and pragmatic Agile. His background spans event streaming (Kafka), Airflow, Kubernetes, AWS data services and fintech protocols (FIX), reflecting an ability to turn mission-critical requirements into reliable production systems. Colleagues know him for direct honesty and a tendency to skip meetings unless they add clear value—an unusual efficiency trait for a senior leader.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
composer10
php-cs-fixer10
static-analysis10
thin10
bundle10
assertion10
strava-api10
symfony10
mongodb10
php-codesniffer10
codeception10
org-babel10
geocoder10
code-standards10
logger10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
doesntmattr/mongodb-migrations
Jun 2016 - Oct 2019
Managed migration support for MongoDB
Contributions:9 releases, 111 commits, 33 PRs in 3 years 4 months
migrate-databasephpmigrationsdatabasemigration
doesntmattr/mongodb-migrations-bundle
Aug 2016 - Apr 2018
Symfony MongoDBMigrationsBundle
Contributions:3 releases, 36 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 7 months
bundlephpsymfony-bundlesymfony
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