Doug Dawson

@Darkwater23

Leader, manager, former developer

Bellevue, NEJoined October 2023

About

I've been doing computer-related things since I was a kid on my dad's Franklin ACE 1000 and his Tandy.

I've built PCs, repaired servers, wired networks by hand, administered servers and built numerous applications.

I've coded in Perl, PHP, Java, VB, C#, VB.NET, JS and probably a few others.

I'm a jack-of-trades technologist. I transitioned into leadership several years ago from a senior .NET developer. I'm currently a Delivery Manager and I lead an agile software development team.

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Postcards From a Dev Managerblog.dougdawson.info32 posts

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DDDoug Dawsonblog.dougdawson.infoApr 30 · 2 min read

Managing Security Issues with Microservices

In my new role, I'm managing a platform of microservices. This is the first time that I've worked with "real" microservices. By coincidence, the organization started logging software vulnerabilities a

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DDDoug Dawsonblog.dougdawson.infoOct 22, 2025 · 2 min read

Feature Flags

I am very pleased to share that my development teams are making good use of the Azure App Configuration Feature Manager. The teams were already familiar with simple on/off flags. We had previously been using LaunchDarkly, but we retired it to reduce ...

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DDDoug Dawsonblog.dougdawson.infoAug 12, 2025 · 2 min read

Make Your Staff Meetings Memorable with This Prize Idea

I host monthly staff meetings for my direct reports. The agenda is the usual managerial stuff. We talk about upcoming events at the company, policy changes, training deadlines, etc. At the bottom of my agenda, I always include a “Life-Altering Prize”...

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DDDoug Dawsonblog.dougdawson.infoAug 5, 2025 · 2 min read

Good Ol' Switch Statements

Switch statements have been around since the early days of programming. In fact, the structure is identical across C-style languages. switch (variable) { case 1: // Some code here break; case 2: // Some code here ...

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DDDoug Dawsonblog.dougdawson.infoJul 10, 2025 · 4 min read

Pipelines and Testing

In about mid-2024, I directed my team to remove the Postman test execution step from the Azure pipelines we used. The company decided to move away from a paid Postman plan so we had to decommission Postman. It was a cost-saving measure that I was dis...

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Managing Security Issues with Microservices

Feature Flags

Make Your Staff Meetings Memorable with This Prize Idea

Good Ol' Switch Statements

Pipelines and Testing