Doug Safreno
Software engineer and entrepreneur in San Francisco. Passionate about coding, food, board games, and the NBA. Proud ice cream tester for @hieesuh.
Experience
Gentrace
Co-founder, CEO
Jan 2023 - present
Pragli (Pesto)
Co-founder, CEO
Apr 2019 - Sep 2022
StacksWare (acq. by Avi Networks)
Co-founder
Jan 2015 - Mar 2019
Asana
Software engineering intern → contractor
Jul 2014 - Jan 2015
Palantir
Software engineering intern (UX)
Jun 2013 - Aug 2013
Groupon
Software engineering intern
Jun 2012 - Aug 2012
Stanford University
BS in Computer Science
Aug 2011 - Jun 2015
Projects
Experimenting with web graphics - Oct 2022
Firebase as a React hook - Jan 2020
How we use Firebase instead of Redux (with React) - Sep 2019
Live avatars (like animoji in the browser) with face-api.js - Aug 2019
Writing
How to effectively take calls in a loud room - Jun 2021
The case for video off - Aug 2020
Fixing high usage with Firebase real-time database - Aug 2020
Loneliness is distracting - Mar 2020
Asynchronous communication is also distracting - Feb 2020
The 6 categories of remote teams - Jan 2020
Include your remote team with “Brady Bunch” video conferencing - Nov 2019