Chris Donati
Staff Software Engineer at Evidation Health
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Donati is a Staff Software Engineer in Santa Barbara with 11 years of experience building resilient back-end systems and platform software. He has a strong track record at companies from AppScale to Evidation Health, where he focuses on reliability, DevOps, and distributed systems. An active open-source contributor, he has improved Python bindings and docs for the widely used FoundationDB project and strengthened serverless platform stability at AppScale through defensive retries, deadlock fixes, and storage integrations. Known for pragmatic cleanup and compatibility work—like Python 3 support and removing vendored dependencies—he brings attention to detail that prevents operational surprises.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
back-end-development10
python10
backend10
distributed-database10
cassandra9
foundationdb9
zookeeper9
documentation9
concurrency8
apidoc8
api8
bash8
script8
key-value-store8
transactional8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AppScale/gts
Mar 2015 - Nov 2019
AppScale is an easy-to-manage serverless platform for building and running scalable web and mobile applications on any infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 2632 commits, 1001 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on improving the stability and functionality of the AppScale platform. They implemented new features by introducing the use of RETRIES constant to improve the resilience of failed user creation attempts and removed unused code (methods) to improve code clarity. They also addressed issues with connecting to the data storage server, which required several modifications like improving the code logic for fetching children and handling data storage issues such as the potential for deadlock. Furthermore, the user contributed towards general improvements of the platform by upgrading the Cassandra version, and handling service account integration.
serverlessaws-lambdaatsmhealthhybrid-cloud
apple/foundationdb
Jan 2019 - Sep 2019
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 1 comment in 7 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the project's documentation and Python bindings, updating the documentation to reflect recent API changes and correcting representation issues within the Python code. The user also improved Python support for the project by addressing versionstamp encoding issues within value objects and adding Python 3 support for a script responsible for making cluster files public. Furthermore, the user removed vendored argparse installation references and updated the make_public.py script to use Python from the environment rather than by absolute path.
bigtabletransactionaldistributed-databasefoundationdbdatabase
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