Sam Douglass
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Pandora
Bend, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Douglass is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 14+ years of experience building end-to-end web systems, currently leading playlist and platform work at Pandora. He spans the full stack—from data stores and middleware (Mule ESB, Hibernate, Spring) to UI and front-end JavaScript/CSS—and is comfortable integrating new APIs and products into complex ecosystems. A pragmatic architect and hands-on coder, Sam has advanced through multiple technical leadership roles at Pandora since 2013 and brings deep experience in Java, Python/Django, and Groovy. Based in Bend, Oregon, he pairs strong cross-functional communication with a track record of shipping reliable, scalable features in high-traffic environments. An entrepreneur at heart (co-founded GeneticMail) who cut his teeth on diverse startups and agency work, he’s known for quickly ramping on unfamiliar technologies and translating business needs into production systems.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Case Western Reserve UniversityHS General, HS General at Loomis Chaffee
Stackoverflow
2,370reputation
841kreached
57answers
3questions
spring
top-5%
maven
top-5%
Github Skills (25)
spring9
maven9
binding8
spring-social8
json7
java-api6
mongodb6
routes6
api6
jackson6
autowire6
spring-boot6
spring-security6
spring-mvc6
forms6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sdouglass/spring-social-tumblr
Nov 2011 - Oct 2013
Contributions:34 commits in 1 year 11 months
javaspringtumblrspring-social
sdouglass/bandcamp4j
Sep 2011 - Jun 2015
Contributions:24 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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