Doug Durham is the Managing Partner of Don’t Panic Labs, a firm that helps companies innovate through the design and development of software technologies. He is also the co-founder of Nebraska Global, a pioneer in the startup landscape in Nebraska. Doug has almost four decades of software engineering and development experience in aerospace, defense, healthcare, manufacturing, ecommerce, consumer web applications, and Internet network services. He is passionate about the process of solving problems through software and the application of sound engineering principles and patterns to these efforts. Doug has taught software engineering courses at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and serves on the School of Computing advisory board. He often speaks at industry conferences on the topic of software engineering, and is a frequent guest lecturer.
Chad Michel is CTO of Don’t Panic Labs with more than 20 years of software development and engineering experience. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and a master’s degree in computer science. At Don’t Panic Labs he works with clients to solve problems through innovative software solutions. Chad has worked for several companies in Lincoln, Nebraska, helping build a practice management application for lawyers, developing key features for an ecommerce application, and wrangling an Internet content delivery system into a stable platform. He regularly speaks at technical meetups hosted by Don’t Panic Labs with significant contributions to the company blog. He also enjoys contributing to technical conferences and groups. Chad teaches a Cloud Architecture course at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on how to design and build maintainable cloud solutions. Chad enjoys combat sports and frequently trains taekwondo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.