Jason Dougherty
San Francisco, California, United States
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SeniorJason Dougherty is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and scalable APIs in fast-moving startups across the San Francisco Bay Area. He has progressed from hands-on full-stack development to engineering management and back to senior individual contributor roles at Middesk, bringing product-minded execution and attention to performance. Jason contributes to open-source, notably enhancing consumer-group features and Datadog metrics in the widely used ruby-kafka client, demonstrating deep familiarity with distributed systems and the Kafka protocol. Known for initiative and grit, he thrives in close-knit teams, pairs effectively with engineers, and consistently seeks the most performant, pragmatic solutions to complex engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (7)
kafka10
communication-protocol10
protocols10
api-design10
rubygems10
ruby10
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zendesk/ruby-kafka
Oct 2017 - May 2018
A Ruby client library for Apache Kafka
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 4 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the development of the Ruby-Kafka client library, specifically focusing on enhancing the consumer group functionality. They added features for listing and describing consumer groups, and integrated Datadog metrics to report consumer lag. Their work included creating new request and response classes for the Kafka protocol and modifying existing classes to support the new APIs. The user's commits demonstrate a good understanding of the Kafka protocol and its client implementation.
apache-kafkaruby-clientkafka-clientkafkaruby
jasondoc3/kafka_command
Apr 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 185 commits, 6 pushes in 10 months
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