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Doug Reese

Full-Lifecycle Enterprise Architect & Systems Engineer

Summary

Enterprise Cloud Architect and Systems Engineer with 20+ years of experience managing the complete software delivery lifecycle—from initial business discovery and rapid prototyping to production-grade architecture, full-stack engineering, and global rollout. Proven track record of independently building functional proofs-of-concept (POCs) and scaling them into resilient, highly automated distributed systems.

I am a proponent of open source software, using many open source core technologies in all projects as well as contributing to their development.

Specialties: Cloud, AI, Embedded, IoT/Wireless, Clear Communication, 100% remote collaboration and development

Professional Experience

2004present

Owner / President

Reese Systems, Inc.

Consulting, hosting, experimenting; creating interconnected software systems to solve challenging problems.

Founder and Principal Engineer of RackNet (racknet.io), a highly automated, secure monitoring SaaS engineered natively on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

A sample of technologies we specialize in:

  • Cloud Architecture
  • AI / Agents - cloud and local
  • Cloud Migration
  • IoT / Wireless
  • Application development
  • Embedded development
  • Software / Hardware Integration
  • Web application development - back-end / front-end
  • Distributed systems
  • Real-time web
  • Databases - SQL and NoSQL
  • Linux / Embedded Linux
  • Sales Engineering
  • Mentoring
  • Project Management
2010-01present

Software Engineering / Architect

Innovive

Lead developer / architect, software development, including but not limited to:

  • Embedded systems
  • Widely distributed systems / Cloud services
  • Web applications - back-end / front-end
  • Real time web / messaging
  • API design / implementation
  • Communication protocols and technologies
  • Software / hardware integration
  • Design for high density wireless environments
  • Distributed control and data collection
  • DevOps

Design and development lead of all software based systems.  This includes embedded Linux devices running in research facilities around the world 24/7/365 and web based applications.

Serve as Sales Engineer and Technical Liaison; facilitating discovery and implementation sessions with global enterprise technology executives.

2005-022009-04

Chief Technology Officer

MP3tunes

Your music lives online. Your music everywhere. MP3tunes stores all your music in the cloud and let you listen to it wherever you are, whenever you want, on any device that can play music.

Led the team that designed and built the MP3tunes service and led integration efforts with partners such as Logitech, Nokia and Clarion. Managed technology related aspects of running a small Internet company, including internal IT and data center operations.

2003-032003-12

Senior Software Engineer

AOL / Time Warner, Inc

Successfully integrated Infogate technologies into AOL Broadband products; coordinated with the mother ship in Dulles, VA for subsequent development and releases. The San Diego office was shut down by AOL in Dec, 2003. The options were a severance or move. I like San Diego.

20002003-03

Director of Web Development

Infogate

Infogate built innovative subscription-based services with leading partners including CNN, USA Today, and the Tribune Company. Responsible for architecting and developing web technologies that scaled to support hundreds of thousands of users, as well as branding for multiple partners.

I led the web development team that rebuilt PointCast, which was launched as the Infogate toolbar. Heavy integration with server and client teams.

Infogate was purchased by AOL Time Warner in March, 2003.

Certifications

MongoDB Certified Developer, Associate C100DEV

Issuing authority: MongoDB
Issued Jul 2016 - No Expiration Date
Credential ID 483313134

Introduction to Big Data (2015)

Issuing authority: Coursera
Issued Oct 2015 - No Expiration Date
Credential ID BFLSFMJ965YM

Courses

Pluralsight / Google Skills
  • Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
  • Generative AI Leader
  • Google Workspace Administrator
  • Google Cloud Concepts
  • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
edX
  • Introduction to Kubernetes - LinuxFoundationX - LFS158x