Douglas Thrift
Principal Software Engineer at CrossnoKaye
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDouglas Thrift is a Principal Software Engineer with 22 years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems from low-level Linux ops to API code generation. Based in Santa Barbara, he has progressed through hands-on engineering and leadership roles at CrossnoKaye, Flexera, and RightScale, consistently focusing on developer productivity and robust build/test infrastructure. An active open-source contributor, Douglas improved testing and build pipelines for PowerShell and enhanced the goa framework by adding OpenAPI YAML generation and fixing platform-specific issues. He blends systems and backend expertise with a pragmatic mindset—evident from early work automating office workflows through to modern CI/CD and codegen improvements. Colleagues know him for thoughtful refactors that reduce flakiness and for a dry sense of humor (see his GitHub bio: "Nice hat!").
22 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Ventura CollegeB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at UC Santa BarbaraUniversity of California Santa CruzHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Villanova Preparatory School
English
Github Skills (23)
testing10
code-generation10
go10
api10
rest10
build-automation10
golang10
powershell10
openapi10
swagger9
command-line9
microservices8
dotnet8
asp-net8
microservices-application8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
goadesign/goa
Mar 2018 - Nov 2019
🌟 Goa: Elevate Go API development! 🚀 Streamlined design, automatic code generation, and seamless HTTP/gRPC support. ✨
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 11 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Douglas primarily contributed to the backend of the `goadesign/goa` repository, focusing on code generation and API design. They addressed issues related to Windows-specific import paths and context leaks in generated example server code. Furthermore, they implemented the generation of OpenAPI YAML files in addition to JSON files, improving the API documentation capabilities of the framework. They also worked on fixing errors in the example command-line interfaces.
golangapicode-generationcode-generatorgoa
PowerShell/PowerShell
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
PowerShell for every system!
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Douglas focused on enhancing the testing and build processes within the PowerShell repository. Their work included refactoring and renaming testing tools, moving and publishing components for use in tests, and implementing specific argument handling for native command executions. The user also updated tests for native command arguments by using variables instead of files. These changes improved the test infrastructure and reliability of the PowerShell project.
windowspowershelllinuxcommand-linemacos
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