Hi

My name is Chase Douglas, and I'm a product engineer. While I've built software up and down the stack, from Linux kernel internals to architecting the first full-featured Browser observability solution, my jam is building products that solve real problems for real people. It's why I founded Stackery, a developer experience product that helped customers build scalable and secure cloud applications. Stackery was acquired by AWS and relaunched as Application Composer (since renamed to Infrastructure Composer). You may not hear too much about it if you don't personally use it to build your AWS apps, but it is slowly (i.e. at enterprise pace) being integrated throughout the AWS Console to help users understand their applications via autogenerated architecture diagrams.

I have many interesting stories I hope to share here in due time. My hope is to document some of the zany ways software products come to be. Examples include:

• Multi-company negotiations of open source library APIs where one party is the billionaire owner of the company you work for (the actual person, at their actual house on the Isle of Man, not the abstracted CEO up the management chain)

• The sillinesses, but also the realities, of startups

• What it's like being a "product engineer" amidst a sea of "traditional software engineers" at a large, enterprise corporation

Oh, and I'm also working on a new project that ties together a lot of my past experiences in development, security, operations, and delightful experiences :). It's called Archodex.

I'm based in Portland, OR, USA. Don't be a stranger if I can be of help. You can reach me at chasedouglas@gmail.com.