Douglas Tarr

Experienced and Innovative Technology Executive

Summary

Involved in 2 successful acquisitions of technology startups (PayScale, mLab).

Successful technology leader with experience in scaling startups, leading teams and building technology platforms.

I provide business and highly technical leadership coupled with an entrepreneurial vision. I have experience in UI/UX, Software Architecture, Big Data, IT Architecture, Databases, and Search.

I enjoy mentoring people, learning new things, and managing software projects and products.

Career Accomplishments

• 2019 - VP Engineering MongoDB. Launched Full Text Search for MongoDB Atlas at MongoDB World 2019.
• 2017 - VP Engineering at mLab a cloud Database-as-a-service Provider, acquired by MongoDB
• 2016 - Founder of MVCode, a growing network of after school coding clubs in the bay area
• 2014 - Technical co-founder, VP Engineeering, CTO of PayScale, authored patent and participated in 9 Figure Acquisition

Key Experience

• San Francisco, California
  MongoDB
  VP Engineering, (Current Role)

  Lead Atlas Search group in MongoDB Atlas (Cloud)

  Responsibilities
  • Team, product, strategy and projects
  • Recruiting and Hiring
  • Culture and communication
  Technology
  • MongoDB
  • Java
  • C++
  • Apache Lucene
• San Francisco, California
  mLab (acquired)
  VP Engineering

  Lead engineering functions at leading MongoDB provider

  Responsibilities
  • Team, product, strategy and projects
  • Recruiting and Hiring
  • Culture and communication
  Technology
  • MongoDB
  • NodeJS
  • Python
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
• Mill Valley, California + 5 Locations
  MVCode
  Founder, CEO

  Founded an after school coding and robotics club for 1st-10th graders

  Currently 6 clubs in SF Bay Area

  Program is taught at many top schools in Bay Area - AltSchool, Town School, SF Day and Mark Day School.

  Responsibilities
  • Managed P&L, Sales, Marketing, Product
  • Architected and Built Tech platform
  • Negotiated software licensing agreements
  • Recruited and Managed Team
  Products Built
  • Learning Management System
  • CRM
  Technology
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Heroku
  • Elastic Search
  • Postgres
  • AWS
  • React
  • React Native
• Mountain View, California
  Seed Equity
  Software Architect

  Designed and built an equity crowdfunding startup portal based on ASP.NET MVC, Node.js and Azure.

  Technology
  • ASP.NET MVC
  • Node.js
  • Azure
  • Elastic Search
  • Angular
  • Git
• Seattle, Washington
  PayScale (acquired)
  Founder, VP Engineering / Consumer Products / Chief Architect

  I built the original code for PayScale, a compensation website. Over time, I built and managed a large team, up to 25 people, including dev, test, PM and data. Scaled website to millions of monthly visitors. I built, designed and managed various technology components, including a custom Search Engine, real time reporting server, Bayesian modeling algorithms, Rules Engine in C, Datacenter Infrastructure, Distributed Map Reduce Platform in C#, Sql Server Databases

  Technology
  • IIS
  • ASP.NET
  • .NET
  • Sql Server
  • C / C++
  • NoSQL including MongoDB and Cassandra
  • Custom Search Engine, Reporting, Bayesian Analytics
• New York, New York
  JPMorganChase
  Consultant

  Via Finetix, LLC, I developed the several components (quoting engine, BOX engine) of an Equity Derivatives trading platform for JPMorganChase, for the BOX (Boston Options Exchange).

  Technology
  • C#
  • Tibco
  • Java
• San Francisco, California
  Levi Strauss & Co
  Technical Lead

  I built the website and back end systems for Levi's Original Spin, a mass customization jeans product.

  Technology
  • ASP
  • Oracle
• Berkeley, California
  Loansoft
  Developer

  I built a windows app and EDI rules engine for mortgage prequalification software.

  Technology
  • VB3-6
  • Access

Startups and Side Projects

• Mill Valley, California
  CorpQNA
  Startup
  Founder, 2012 - 2013

  I founded CorpQNA, a website which provides Social Q&A for Businesses

  Envisioned concept, wrote code, handled marketing, sales, customer service

  Technology
  • .NET
  • Azure
  • OAuth / Yammer / Google APIs
  • SOLR
  • SignalR / WebSockets
  • Knockout.js
  • Mercurial
  Startup Outcome: Advisory role, continued operations
• Mill Valley, California
  FeatureShot
  Startup
  Founder, 2012

  I built FeatureShot, a website lets you take screenshots of SaaS apps and create feature graphs

  Envisioned idea, wrote code

  Technology
  • .NET
  • AppHarbor
  • Google Chrome Extensions
  • Mercurial
  Startup Outcome: Shut Down
• Seattle, Washington
  Undo.io
  Startup
  Founder, 2011-2012

  I built Undo.io, a productivity tool to publish rich text based note files.

  Envisioned idea, wrote code

  Technology
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Heroku
  • Postgres
  • SOLR
  • Git
  Startup Outcome: Shut Down

Education

• Chicago, Illinois
  University of Chicago
  Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics