Erich Douglass
Lead Developer at Hamlet
Dublin, California, United States
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Top SchoolErich Douglass is a lead developer with 13+ years of experience building and guiding teams to deliver sustainable, production-ready software from Silicon Valley to enterprise systems. He combines hands-on backend and mobile engineering—contributing to notable open-source projects like LicenseFinder (improving Go dependency/license detection) and Robolectric (Android testing enhancements)—with leadership roles at DoorDash, Pivotal, and Pivotal Labs. His background spans large-scale distributed systems and tooling, from HP’s workload and power management products to modern platform engineering at fast-moving product companies. Known for pragmatic engineering practices and mentoring, he helps teams balance velocity with maintainability. Based in Dublin, California, he brings both deep systems-level experience and practical open-source contributions that improve developer workflows. Notably, he’s as comfortable parsing Godeps.json as he is designing shadow implementations for Android components—evidence of a developer who thrives across tooling and application layers.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology
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Github Skills (31)
unit-testing10
dependency-management10
bitmap10
package-management10
android-intent10
robolectric10
android-activity10
java10
ruby10
javas10
go10
android10
logging10
unit-test10
android-layout10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
robolectric/robolectric
May 2013 - Jun 2016
Android Unit Testing Framework
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:3 releases, 542 commits, 362 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Erich primarily contributed to the Android unit testing framework Robolectric, demonstrating a focus on the Android platform. Their work included implementing new features related to audio stream control and supporting a class for searching and creating shadows for various android components. They have also made enhancements to existing Shadow classes.
android-unit-testingandroidrobolectricjavaunit-testing
pivotal/LicenseFinder
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Find licenses for your project's dependencies.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 3 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Erich primarily contributed to the `licensefinder` project by improving its dependency management capabilities for Go projects. They implemented features to correctly identify dependencies managed by Go's `dep` and `workspace` package managers. These changes included modifications to parse dependency information from `Godeps.json`, and handling vendored dependencies, enabling the tool to accurately detect and report licenses of Go packages within a project. Further enhancements involved displaying dependencies in the correct format and fixing issues to properly integrate these dependencies.
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