Marc Dougherty
Developer Relations Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarc Dougherty is a Developer Relations Engineer with 16 years of experience who transitioned from a long tenure as a Site Reliability Engineer to focus on improving developer experience and shortening feedback loops. Based in Seattle, he helps teams run reliable systems across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments, drawing on deep SRE instincts to make tooling and documentation more actionable. At Google he contributes hands-on samples and serverless patterns for Go in the GoogleCloudPlatform repos, including work to stabilize end-to-end tests and modernize Cloud Event handling. Marc blends pragmatic systems engineering with developer advocacy, translating operational hard lessons into clearer developer workflows and sample code. His background as a Linux sysadmin and Northeastern CS graduate gives him a practical, tool-first approach to solving reliability problems. Colleagues rely on him to turn flaky production behaviors into reproducible examples that speed onboarding and reduce incidents.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Northeastern University
Github Skills (15)
gcp10
testing10
google-cloud-run10
google-cloud-functions10
go10
cicd9
docker8
dockers8
google-cloud7
appengine7
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
automations7
automation7
golang7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/golang-samples
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Sample apps and code written for Google Cloud in the Go programming language.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:278 reviews, 20 commits, 240 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Marc primarily contributed to a Cloud Functions sample repository, focusing on building and testing serverless functions for Google Cloud. Their work included adding new samples that use the Google Cloud Audit Logs, implementing GCE instance labeling, and addressing flakiness in end-to-end tests. They also refactored code to remove dependencies and adopted more modern Cloud Event handling techniques.
golangappenginesample-appsgoogle-cloudgoogle-appengine
muncus/klaxon-wip
Jun 2010 - May 2018
Contributions:125 commits, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years
in-progressnormal
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