Bryan Mcdonnel
Staff Software Engineer at Zipline
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolBryan Mcdonnel is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building mission-critical systems across aerospace, payments, and healthcare technology. He has progressed from early engineering roles at GE Healthcare IT and Spot Trading to payments at Braintree and a leadership stint as Lead Software Engineer at SpaceX, and now drives software at Zipline in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bryan combines systems-level thinking with hands-on delivery, shipping reliable, scalable services in high-stakes environments where latency, safety, and correctness matter. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Purdue and brings a pragmatic curiosity—interested in “doing cool things” that solve real operational challenges—paired with proven leadership in cross-disciplinary teams.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering at Purdue University
English
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Github Skills (22)
visa10
payment-service10
braintree10
payment-gateway9
payment-processing9
credit9
php-library8
adyen8
python8
php8
nodejs7
payment-methods7
guzzle7
mastercard6
ruby6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bmcdonnel/data-structures
May 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:164 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
bmcdonnel/tmux-vim
Apr 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
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