Douglas Simons
Principal Software Engineer at TestPlant
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
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RockstarDouglas Simons is a Principal Software Engineer based in Fort Collins, Colorado, with 16 years of experience building robust backend systems and driving technical excellence. He has long-standing leadership roles at Eggplant and TestPlant, where he focuses on pragmatic engineering solutions and mentoring teams. His open-source work on the GNUstep Base Library demonstrates deep systems-level skills—fixing tricky date/time parsing, Windows compatibility, and XML handling while implementing file attribute management. Douglas combines attention to cross-platform interoperability with a knack for quietly stabilizing legacy codepaths that many teams rely on. Colleagues value him for reliably delivering subtle but critical fixes that improve real-world reliability across different OS environments.
16 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (12)
objective-c10
common-library10
core-library10
foundation10
standard-library10
debug9
windows8
xml7
xcode6
eggplant6
android6
clang6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gnustep/libs-base
Aug 2009 - Oct 2020
The GNUstep Base Library is a library of general-purpose, non-graphical Objective C objects.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:73 commits, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 11 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Douglas primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements to the GNUstep Base Library, particularly concerning date and time parsing, Windows compatibility, and XML handling. Their contributions addressed issues with AM/PM time format, time zone handling, and Windows-specific directory paths. Furthermore, the user implemented the `setAttributes:ofItemAtPath:error:` method for file management.
objective-cgnugnustepfoundationgraphical
keysight-eggplant/libs-base
Oct 2020 - Jan 2025
The GNUstep Base Library is a library of general-purpose, non-graphical Objective C objects.
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 3 months
objective-ccppsymbolsgnustepgraphical
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