# Douglas Issichopoulos

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Location: Seal Beach, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/douglasissichopoulos

With 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, a master’s degree in computer science from UIUC, and a BS in mathematics from Stanford, I have proven expertise in ML/AI, distributed systems, and full stack web development. 

I am also a lover of foreign languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French) and a believer in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

## Work Experience
### Engineering @ Stealth
Jan 2026 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer, FortiSASE @ Fortinet
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Led end-to-end design and deployment of the Syncana monitoring system (AWS EKS), enabling our $50M+/year FortiSASE product to launch a full suite of Digital Experience Monitoring features:
● Built a Kafka-based telemetry ingestion pipeline processing 500+ records/sec, increasing throughput by 5x compared to REST polling
● Deployed self-hosted TimescaleDB instances (timeseries-optimized Postgres) with FastAPI endpoints, providing 30+ days of data retention and sub-second query responses
● Delivered seasonality-aware anomaly detection and Grafana dashboards, establishing Syncana as the primary observability tool for Ops in diagnosing customer issues

### Software Engineer, Lacework Edge [Acquired by Fortinet] @ Lacework
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California, United States
● Redesigned security threat detection data models, decoupling from legacy ML and enabling plug-and-play integration with modern models
● Built an LLM-powered anomaly interpretation system (RAG), explaining threats in plain English and recommending actions, which transformed user experience

### Senior Software Engineer @ Humanyze
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022
● Co-architected Executive Insights SaaS platform (AWS, React, Django, Postgres), enabling company’s pivot from consulting to SaaS model
● Rebuilt ingestion pipeline from single-server to PySpark on AWS EMR/S3, achieving 100x faster processing and $12K/month cost savings
● Co-invented the Humanyze Organizational Health Score™️ system (20+ proprietary metrics, patent pending), providing executives with quantitative organizational insights
● Designed and launched a benchmarking system for 3TB+ of customer timeseries data, enabling clients to compare performance across industries and global peers for the first time
● Automated customer-facing analytics pipelines (Python, PostgreSQL, graph visualization), delivering insights for 100+ executive presentations and reducing analysis turnaround from weeks to minutes


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Mathematics
Stanford University
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012

### Master's degree in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023

### High School Diploma
Rochelle Township High School
Jan 2004 – Jan 2008


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dougissi
- Website: https://dougissi.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22