Alan O'donovan
Vice President, Full Stack Engineering Chapter Leader at Fidelity Investments
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAlan O'donovan is a seasoned technology leader with 11 years of experience driving full stack engineering, product and program management at Fidelity Investments, now serving as Vice President and Chapter Leader. He combines an honors BSc in Business Information Systems with executive training from MIT Sloan to bridge technical depth (Java, C#, SQL, web stacks) and strategic program delivery across cloud and architecture modernization initiatives. Known for rapid promotion and trusted with high accountability, he has led cross-functional agile transformations, product roadmaps, and large-scale, multi-geography delivery efforts supporting trading desks and board operations. Alan couples systems analysis and hands-on engineering background with strong people leadership—coaching teams, steering technology choices, and improving processes to realize measurable cost savings and automation. A pragmatic experimenter, he champions new methodologies and smarter ways of working to accelerate outcomes. Outside of work his GitHub presence points to a long-standing developer identity (ad onovan) that predates his corporate profile, signaling sustained practical coding experience behind his leadership role.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Program Developing and Managing a Successful Technology and Product Strategy, Executive Program Developing and Managing a Successful Technology and Product Strategy at MIT Sloan School of ManagementBSc Business Information Systems (Honours), BSc Business Information Systems (Honours) at University College Cork
English, Irish, French
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Github Skills (42)
programming-language10
skylark10
python10
build-system10
java10
go-tools10
regular-expression10
starlark10
go10
bazel-rules10
bazel10
golang10
cgo10
scalable10
configuration-language10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
google/skylark
Oct 2017 - Nov 2020
Skylark in Go: the Skylark configuration language, implemented in Go [MOVED to go.starlark.net]
Contributions:149 PRs, 146 pushes, 123 branches in 3 years 2 months
configuration-languagegoskylarkpython
google/starlark-go
Oct 2018 - Feb 2021
Starlark in Go: the Starlark configuration language, implemented in Go
Contributions:56 reviews, 325 PRs, 391 pushes in 2 years 4 months
configuration-languagegostarlark
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