Adam Donaghy
Senior Software Engineer at Cash App
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolAdam Donaghy is a senior software engineer and team lead based in Melbourne with 8–10 years of hands-on full-stack experience building scalable web platforms across fintech, government, retail and agency clients. Currently leading engineering efforts in Cash App’s disputes team, he drives cross-functional projects that improve compliance, customer experience and operational efficiency while mentoring engineers and shaping hiring/promotion decisions. He has a proven track record of decomposing monoliths into microservices, shipping GraphQL/React frontends and robust backends in Django, .NET and Node, and improving CI/CD and testing cultures. Adam is also an active open-source maintainer who contributed compatibility and robustness fixes to the widely used django-polymorphic project, demonstrating attention to backwards compatibility across Django versions. Colleagues rely on him to translate stakeholder requirements into organisation-level technical designs and to lead incident trend and tech-radar initiatives. He pairs pragmatic engineering with process improvements that reduce risk and increase delivery confidence.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Monash University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
django-orm10
python10
django10
debug9
backward-compatibility9
heroku6
jquery6
post6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jazzband/django-polymorphic
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Improved Django model inheritance with automatic downcasting
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 5 commits, 9 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on improving the `django-polymorphic` library's functionality by modifying the `query.py` and `AUTHORS.rst` files. They addressed compatibility issues with Django versions, particularly Django 3.2 and above, by implementing conditional function definitions. The contributions include fixing potential failures, updating the code to be backwards compatible and fixing typos.
pythonimproveddjangodjango-modelinheritance
AdamDonna/dotfiles
Aug 2019 - Aug 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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