Doug is a director of software development in Oracle Labs focussing on product management of solutions in OCI and related tooling that reduce the effort and human labor required to develop and manage modern cloud apps. The solutions automate testing, scaling, tuning, and failure detection and recovery to help improve application security, reliability, and performance.

Doug has along history with Java frameworks focussed on persistence (JPA, JAXB, JSONB, ...) and Enterprise Java including a leadership role in the formation of JPA and the reference implementation with EclipseLink.