Douglas
Raggett

About me

Registered Nurse.
Self-taught builder.

I'm a Registered Nurse and self-taught web developer based in San Francisco, with a career that spans clinical medicine, pharmaceutical research, and modern cloud infrastructure.

My nursing career took me from bedside care at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco to the front lines of clinical research at UCSF and California Pacific Medical Center. I entered research during the early 1990s HIV/AIDS crisis and went on to work across renal, cardiac, neurology, and gastroenterology — watching investigational drugs complete the journey from early-phase trials through to FDA approval.

I came to technology early — university coursework in Pascal, COBOL, and Fortran in the 1970s, then over a decade running ByteNet Online, a dial-up BBS community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Today I build and maintain production web properties using Cloudflare Workers and Pages, JAMstack architecture, Eleventy, and serverless workflows — all self-taught.

I bring to everything I do the discipline of a clinical background, the rigour of someone who has seen what it takes to bring a drug safely to market, and a belief that the best technology is built around the people who need it most.