Robert Douglass
Co-Founder at Spec Kitty
Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolRobert Douglass is a veteran software startup executive and serial co-founder with over two decades of industry experience and 11 years in leadership roles, specializing in CMS, e‑commerce, DevOps, SaaS/PaaS, and decentralization. He has repeatedly taken products from prototype to funding—leading accelerators, raising seed rounds, and orchestrating strategic M&A and partner deals such as Platform.sh acquisitions and major e‑commerce partnerships. A hands‑on product architect and principal engineer, he builds prototypes in RAG‑enhanced AI, data collection, and e‑commerce while also publishing and refining developer-facing documentation for projects like platformsh/platformsh-docs. Passionate about climate-focused software, he pairs commercial traction with mission-driven product work and maintains deep open-source roots dating back to foundational Drupal contributions and cultural projects like the widely noted Open Goldberg Variations. He combines musical discipline (MM/BM in horn performance) with technical leadership, an uncommon blend that surfaces in his long track record of creative project conception, funding and execution.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BM Music performance (horn), BM Music performance (horn) at University of MichiganMM Music horn, MM Music horn at Indiana University Bloomington
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
doc10
documentation10
git8
ssh8
nutch6
drupal6
authentication6
selenium-ide6
solr6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
platformsh/platformsh-docs
Sep 2014 - Mar 2017
Platform.sh documentation. Templates available at https://github.com/platformsh-templates/
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:14 reviews, 50 commits, 32 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the repository by updating and creating documentation related to the Platform.sh platform. Their commits involve revisions to existing documentation files, new pages, and updates to the glossary. Their focus is on clarifying the use of the Platform.sh CLI, clarifying development workflows, and documenting platform features, such as SSH, and going live.
platformsh
robertDouglass/opengoldbergvariations.org
Dec 2019 - Aug 2025
Source code for https://opengoldbergvariations.org
Contributions:14 PRs, 69 pushes, 14 branches in 5 years 8 months
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