Brendan Donegan
Director Quality Engineering at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Leinster, Ireland
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Top SchoolBrendan Donegan is a seasoned quality engineering leader with 15 years of hands-on experience across mobile, embedded and large-scale web projects, now directing a global quality organisation at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He has built and scaled teams from the ground up, hiring and growing offshore and onshore engineers while defining OKR-driven quality strategies and release practices. Technically fluent in Perl, Python, Bash and Unix tooling, Brendan has bootstrapped monorepos, CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Docker, and authored Github API scripts to surface development metrics. His background in hardware certification and system testing gives him a rare blend of low-level platform insight and modern test automation expertise. Known for turning testing needs into pragmatic engineering solutions, he combines managerial rigor with a developer’s mindset for scripting and tooling. Based in Leinster, Ireland, he aims to keep pushing quality engineering toward measurable, organization-wide impact.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Applied Science (Mobile Computing & Networks), MSc, Applied Science (Mobile Computing & Networks) at University College CorkBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Ulster
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Github Skills (62)
client-library10
consumer-driven-contracts10
ubuntu10
python-client10
pact10
beancount10
maas9
testing9
e2e-test9
protractor9
python9
pact-js9
docker8
angular8
test-framework8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
brendan-donegan/vidly
Apr 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:31 PRs, 52 pushes, 40 branches in 4 years 11 months
brendan-donegan/vidly-api
May 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:81 PRs, 76 pushes, 71 branches in 4 years 8 months
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