Connell Donaghy
Senior Software Engineer at Chime
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolConnell Donaghy is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable backend and data systems, now based in San Francisco and currently at Chime. He has driven integrations and automation at Kojo, secured sensitive data access and improved Spark/Hadoop reliability at Pinterest, and contributed performance-focused features to RocksDB replication tooling in a notable open-source repo. Comfortable across backend, DevOps, and data engineering domains, he has scaled EDI/API integrations from zero to hundreds of customer/vendor pairings and implemented SOC 2 controls to meet audit requirements. A Carnegie Mellon computational physics graduate with a strong computer science background, Connell blends algorithmic rigor with practical system design and a knack for squeezing performance out of distributed storage and networking stacks.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computational Physics Additional Major in Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computational Physics Additional Major in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityArchmere Academy
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Github Skills (20)
udp10
back-end-development10
rocksdb10
c1110
networking10
java10
c1710
javas10
amazon-s310
aws-s310
thrift10
s3-bucket10
devops9
aws9
concurrency9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pinterest/rocksplicator
Feb 2017 - Nov 2019
RocksDB Replication
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:52 commits, 58 PRs, 25 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Connell primarily contributed to the Rocksplicator project by implementing new endpoints and modifying existing ones within the admin handler. They introduced functionality for adding and checking databases, and also updated the S3 utility for SST file uploads, migrating to the IngestExternalFile call for improved performance and compatibility. Additionally, they refactored code, added flags and made improvements to thrift router.
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mofarrell/p2pvc
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
A point to point color terminal video chat.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 20 pushes, 3 branches in 4 days
Contributions summary:Connell primarily focused on building the backend infrastructure for a point-to-point color terminal video chat application. Their commits demonstrate the implementation of UDP server and client functionalities. They created functions for client/server connections and incorporated features for multi-user networking, including handling passwords and connection data. They also added bandwidth functionalities and associated header and data definitions.
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