Bryan Donovan
Software Engineer at Apple
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolBryan Donovan is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years building database-backed web applications and robust APIs, currently applying his skills at Apple from his base in Portland, Oregon. He blends deep backend experience in Ruby and Node.js—sharpened at Beats Music and through a long-running personal Rails project, UrbanDrinks.com—with a strong emphasis on test-driven development and automation. Bryan has a track record of practical open-source contributions to notable projects like node-restify, sinon, and nodeunit, improving client behavior, timeouts, and test reporting. His background in statistics and quality engineering at Sun Microsystems informs a data-driven approach to design, testing, and performance. Entrepreneurial by nature, he co-founded UrbanDrinks and continues to explore startup ventures while steadily broadening his technical toolkit.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
San José State UniversityBSEET, BSEET at DeVry University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (36)
unit-testing10
api-rest10
caching10
javascript10
spy10
web-application10
sinon10
redis10
api-design10
stub10
stubs10
restful-api10
testing10
rspec10
http10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jaredwray/cacheable
Apr 2013 - Aug 2022
a robust, scalable, and maintained set of caching packages
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 345 commits, 80 PRs in 9 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Bryan focused on implementing and testing caching packages for the `cacheable` repository, which is a set of caching packages for various use cases. Their work involved creating tests for multi-caching, refactoring the `run()` function to `wrap()`, and adding functionality to set and delete without a callback. They demonstrated an understanding of caching strategies, including memory and Redis stores, and the importance of handling errors. The user also contributed to examples and testing.
redisnode-jscache-controlnodejscache
WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki
Jul 2011 - Nov 2011
This wiki innovates by: 1. federated sharing, 2. drag refactoring and 3. data visualization.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Bryan focused on setting up the basic structure and testing framework for the Ruby-based web application. They implemented RSpec testing and defined initial tests for the welcome page and other core functionalities. Refactoring of page handling was also undertaken, with the introduction of dedicated `Page` and `Favicon` classes. Further commits involved the restructuring of the server-side code for better organization and maintainability.
visualizationsharingrefactoringdata-visualizationwiki
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