William Dougherty
Senior Software Engineer at Dropzone AI
Kenmore, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Dougherty is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native, security-conscious platforms. He has deep expertise in backend services, Kubernetes, Terraform/Terragrunt, CI/CD, and observability stacks, and helped design and ship ExtraHop’s cloud microservice platform from greenfield to production. More recently he supported network development for a major streaming platform and now architects platform services at Dropzone AI, blending SRE, devops, and backend engineering. William’s background in bioinformatics and teaching highlights a practical curiosity and ability to translate complex systems for diverse audiences. Based in Kenmore, WA, he pairs systems-level thinking with pragmatic tooling choices to prioritize reproducible development environments and compliant operations.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Biotechnology, Bachelor of Science (BS) Biotechnology at University of California, DavisPython Bootcamp Python, Python Bootcamp Python at Code Fellows
Stackoverflow
324reputation
17kreached
6answers
5questions
Github Skills (200)
python10
terraform10
prometheus-exporter10
security10
automation10
infrastructure10
encryption10
terraform-module10
ssh10
monitoring10
opentofu10
terraform-cloud10
hashicorp-vault10
thin10
hashicorp10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
roverdotcom/askbot-devel
Jul 2014 - Dec 2014
ASKBOT is a Q&A forum, written in Django/Python and Javascript. **TRANSLATORS**: please note that the translation environment is available at Transifex
Contributions:557 commits in 4 months
pythondjangotranslationforumjavascript
geekofalltrades/SSoB
Feb 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:24 pushes, 4 branches, 5 tags in 3 years 11 months
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