Douglas J. Meyer

As a senior software engineer, I work with with a range of teams, including customer service, design, and QA, to create a product that suits customer needs. Additionally, I am always looking for ways to improve the development process and how best to integrate those changes.

Vibes2016 - Now

Senior Software Engineer

• Launched initiative to standardize and improve front-end architecture across multiple applications.
• Initiated automated in-browser testing for QA team.
• Helped design team in establishing a system to standardize design across multiple applications.

UrbanBound2014 - 2016

Senior Software Engineer

Collaborated with customer management, QA, and design teams to build upon the product for our range of users.

• Hosted "lunch and learns" to help development team learn new technologies and practices.
• Improved development by speeding up the front-end build and automating coding best practices.

Centro2006 - 2014

When I started, it was a small development team of 5 people working on a product for use within the company. Since then, it has grown to a 50 person software team working on a variety of internal and external products. Growing alongside the company has allowed me to learn a variety if technical skills and development procedures.

Senior Software EngineerAugust 2012 - December 2014

I worked with different groups (design, QA, product) to develop a marketable product.

• Developed a Styleguide, working closely with the Design team.
• Introduced and transitioned development to use AngularJS front-end framework.

Software EngineerMay 2007 - August 2012

The company transitioned from creating software for our sales team, to creating software for external customers; and this allowed me to learn a new side of software development.

• Rails deployment
• As the need arose, I became familiar with front-end web-development.
• Developed TestIt to simplify Centro's JS testing.
• Started periodically working remotely.

Software Engineer InternMay 2006 - May 2007

Right out of college, I leaned a lot about software development and how to work on a small team to develop software that was critical for the company to be able to grow.

Elect OnlineSeptember 2009-2011

Freelance Software Engineer

Maintained and development new features for voter management software.

Poster-DisplayNovember - December 2009

Freelance Software Engineer

Worked with print design team to develop website from PDF designs.

Ledger

This is a zero-sum budget program I developed to get my wife and I out of rigid and fragile spreadsheets. I've used this project to evaluate different front-end frameworks (including the redux store within react). Out of this, in 2013, I spearheaded Centro's move to Angular.

Relativity

An idea to help visualize the relative size of landmarks. Built on the firebase platform.

BuildJS

This project was used primarily to learn the gulp front-end build systems and node.js development.

git-backup

Git Backup/Restore is a utility that arose out of me wanting to backup local changes to git projects without publishing them and without duplicating information already on a remote server. Building this was mostly about learning more about git and linux scripting.

TestIt

This is a JS testing framework I wrote because, at the time, most JS testing frameworks required a lot of setup before you could start testing. Because of it's simplicity and versatility, it was used for JS testing at Centro.

Education

Windy-city Rails - 2015

Ruby Remote Conf - 2014

An Event Apart - Web Design Conference - 2008

Bachelors of Science in Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology. - 2006