Douglas Patterson

About Douglas Patterson

Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, Ph.D. Philosophical Logic. 14 years full stack web development experience. I am currently an Engineering Manager at Nclusion, Inc, a provider of banking and financial services in the developing world. Previously I was the founding engineer of the company, developing a large part of the software during the seed round and scaling the team from 5 to 100 in 2025.I was also the founding engineer of Porter, a Food & Beverage startup that recently exited, and I have an extensive side project, the Logic Resource Center, which is an ed tech product for University logic classes - please see the link below! Further back, I’ve worked throughout the Javascript ecosystem from mobile, web and React Native with TypeScript, through Express and extensions like Sails and Feathers on the server with NodeJS, to back end jobs handle finance, integrations, orders, etc at scale. Broad DB experience including SQL, Elastic, Redis and MongoDB. Experience with realtime messaging, RabbitMQ, etc. Deep expertise with MongoDB data modeling, indexing, performance and aggregations. Extensive experience managing operations and deployment on Google Cloud Platform and AWS, with build systems like Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub actions and Railway, and with containerization.I also have 10 years academic experience as Assistant and Associate Professor and a series of publications on the application of logic and linguistics, plus over 15 years university teaching experience.

Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   Nclusion

   Feb 2026 — Present · Palo Alto, CA, US

   Hiring Manager* Recruit and evaluate software engineers* Full management and mentorship responsibilities* Plan projects in cooperation with product manager* Interface with stakeholders in company operations, finance and elsewhere* lead design and implementation of technical assessments in recruiting* develop v2 system-wide IAM* in-country physical location performance monitoring* develop scalable framework for tenant org administration

Education

• Reed College

  BA, Philosophy

  1987 — 1991

• University of Pittsburgh

  Ph. D, Philosophy

  1992 — 2000

Skills

• Web Design
• Php
• Angularjs
• Redux
• Python
• Latex
• Web Development
• Javascript
• C++
• Semantic Web
• Css
• Mobile Applications
• Data Analysis
• Philosophy of Language
• React.js
• Epistemology
• Lamp
• Node.js
• Mysql
• C
• Html5
• Philosophy
• User Interface Design
• Nlp
• Twilio
• Website Development
• Nltk
• User Experience