Douglas Rudolph

Hey. I'm a data-driven builder who likes to track life in numbers, patterns, and progress. I live in NYC, spend a lot of time running, and I'm always working on something.

Most recently, that was Tero - a semantic control plane for observability data. I helped shape the engineering and lead the product direction there, and I'm currently exploring what's next. If you're building something interesting, I'd love to chat.

I'm best described as a strong engineer and creative technologist: I ship production systems, but I think across design and product too. I also like to write and build in public. This site is where I share what I'm making and how I'm thinking.

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Opinions, journalism, and reflective writing

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Tinkerings

Design explorations and web experiments

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