Douglas Roark
Software Engineer at Velocity
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDouglas Roark is a software engineer based in New Orleans with 12 years of hands-on experience building backend systems and full-stack solutions. Currently at Velocity, he brings a fast-learning, collaborative mindset and a passion for turning ambitious ideas into working products. He has specialized experience in cryptocurrency tooling—contributing to BitcoinArmory by improving its macOS build process, updating C++ components, and enabling core daemon builds. Trained through Operation Spark’s Advanced Software Engineering Immersive, Douglas pairs practical bootcamp foundations with real-world open-source impact. Outside work he’s a tech enthusiast who balances blockchain development with a love of bikes and continuous self-driven learning.
12 years of coding experience
Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program, Full Stack, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program, Full Stack at Operation Spark
Github Skills (6)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
python10
autotools9
bitcoins9
bitcoin9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
goatpig/BitcoinArmory
Feb 2016 - Mar 2019
Python-Based Bitcoin Software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:126 commits, 165 PRs, 433 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Douglas primarily focused on fixing and improving the OS X build script for the Python-based Bitcoin software. Their contributions involved cleaning up the build process, correcting compiler flags, updating dependencies, and enabling the armoryd build. They also made changes to the C++ code base.
pythonbitcoin
droark/BitcoinArmory
Feb 2016 - Jun 2024
Contributions:1076 pushes, 155 branches, 1 comment in 8 years 5 months
pythonbitcoin
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