Cas Donoghue
Senior Software Engineer at Elastic
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolCas Donoghue is a Senior Software Engineer in Portland with a decade of experience building scalable, distributed systems and data pipelines across biotech, enterprise software, and observability tooling. He has driven major throughput and capacity gains at Puppet while contributing backend improvements to widely used open-source projects such as puppet and puppetserver, and now designs features for Logstash and the OpenTelemetry Collector at Elastic. Comfortable across Clojure, Java, Ruby, and C++, Cas blends hands-on implementation with team leadership—coaching engineers, owning security reviews, and improving CI/CD to increase delivery velocity. His background in molecular biology informs pragmatic approaches to data and automation, having moved from benchwork and genomics pipelines into production engineering. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtfully engineered solutions that balance performance, reliability, and operational needs.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Biology Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology, Biology Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology at Humboldt State UniversityBS Computer Science Computer Science, BS Computer Science Computer Science at Oregon State University
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Github Skills (45)
json10
puppeteer10
docker10
back-end-development10
clojure-cli10
scripting10
puppet10
testing10
configuration-management10
rspec10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
ruby10
clojure10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
puppetlabs/puppetlabs-puppet_agent
Jul 2018 - Sep 2022
Module for managing Puppet-Agent
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 27 commits, 30 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Cas primarily contributed to the automation of Puppet Agent installations across various operating systems, including macOS, Windows, and SLES. They implemented installation tasks using shell scripts and PowerShell, managing different package formats and repositories. The user also addressed upgrade paths and dependencies, ensuring compatibility with different Puppet versions and collections. Additionally, they modified acceptance tests, showing involvement in integration and testing of the installation processes.
puppet-agentsupportedagentpuppet
puppetlabs/puppetserver
Apr 2020 - Jul 2022
Server automation framework and application
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:107 reviews, 12 commits, 39 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Cas primarily focused on enhancing the Puppet Server's functionality and resolving related issues. Their contributions included adding options to the `compile-ast` endpoint, enabling it to handle Bolt-related types and variables. They also addressed data serialization issues within the Clojure/Ruby translation process and improved the handling of plan and target variables. Additionally, the user made improvements to testing infrastructure.
frameworkautomationjavaautomation-frameworkserver-automation
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