Summary
Douglas Stull is a Senior Staff Fullstack Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and scaling complex web platforms, currently leading cross-team architecture at GitLab. He blends deep backend expertise in Ruby/Rails, SQL and Unix with frontend and experimentation stewardship, and was the first engineer at GitLab to hold both frontend and backend maintainer roles simultaneously. Douglas has driven measurable business impact—architecting trial eligibility and free-tier monetization that increased ARR, improving CI runtime by 66%, and aligning 10+ engineers on instrumentation patterns for Growth. His background in high-security, mission-critical trading systems informs a pragmatic approach to automation, reliability, and performance at production scale. Based in Great Neck, NY, he pairs formal engineering discipline (BS in Electrical Engineering) with a track record of converting cross-organizational needs into durable, auditable systems.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at Ohio University