Douglas Wood
Chief Scientist at Ursa Space Systems, Inc.
Great Falls, Virginia, United States
Summary
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SeniorDouglas Wood is a Chief Scientist and systems architect with nine years of experience designing and implementing extremely large distributed systems and data-center scale performance modeling. Based in Great Falls, VA, he leads multi-organization engineering teams to solve high-complexity problems and translate statistical and big-data analytics into operational systems. At Ursa Space Systems he combines hands-on architecture and engineering leadership with federal systems experience from Kyndi, demonstrating both strategic vision and practical implementation skills. An attentive problem solver who still contributes to open-source tooling, he has improved router firmware scripts to harden VPN routing and streamline DevOps workflows—reflecting a detail-oriented approach to reliability and maintainability.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
sh10
router10
script10
bash10
shell10
scripting10
routers10
linux9
firmware9
networking8
openvpn8
automations7
automation7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng
Jul 2019 - Aug 2020
Third party firmware for Asus routers (newer codebase)
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 3 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Douglas primarily focused on improving the `vpnrouting.sh` script, addressing POSIX errors, standardizing code style, and optimizing variable usage. They also addressed a bug in `updown-client.sh` related to DNS configuration changes, ensuring proper deletion of related files. Furthermore, the user streamlined the code, replacing backticks with `$()` and improving variable handling for better readability and efficiency.
partyfirmwareasus-routersroutersmikrotik
Xentrk/nvram-save-restore-utility
Mar 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:39 commits, 332 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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