Douglas J. Meyer

With 20 years of professional web development experience, with a leaning toward front-end development, I'm excited to work with a team to build applications that make an impact for users. I'm motivated by opportunities to improve the workflows and processes of those around me, making us all more effective.

Addepar2022 - Now

Staff Software Engineer

Defined and implemented an approach for shared UIs across codebases and frameworks. This resulted in a consistent experience for our users and quicker turnarounds for new features. Other teams became actively involved with the project and modeled their projects after this approach.
Leveraged agentic coding to migrate thousands of tests from multiple frameworks to playwright, improving on coding standards, and exposing testing practices to contributors and AI agents. This helped not only to reduce mental load for internal and external contributors, but also fix flaky tests that plagued our build.
Developed automated detection of memory leaks. This used to be an issue that was handled after it caused downstream build issues.

Vibes2016 - 2022

Senior Software Engineer

Launched initiative to standardize and improve front-end architecture across teams and multiple applications.
Set up the QA team with automated in-browser testing.
Implemented a component library with the design team to encourage standard 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 of 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 learned 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.

react-location-hook 2021

A light-weight, but powerful, react router. This project was born out of wanting a simple solution instead of a big dependency with a big API.

Chicago Marathon with Finish MSOct 2022

I ran the 2022 Chicago Marathon with Finish MS charity, with the goal to come in at 4 hours.

QuiddlerCounter 2021

A fun little project to help add and track points for the card game Quiddler. It served as a nice excuse to learn Github Actions and brush-up on PWA practices.

Minesweeper 2017

This is a re-creation of the classic minesweeper, but on an infinite field. It started as a fun idea and grew into an excuse to get more familiar with redux.

Ledger 2012 - 2020

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.

TestIt 2011

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

B.S. in Computer Science - Illinois Institute of Technology