Dominic Mcdonnell
Senior Engineer at Hexarad
Elmbridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDominic Mcdonnell is a Senior Engineer and full-stack web developer with nine years of professional experience and a strong background in education. He specialises in improving UX and accessibility, having led efforts toward WCAG 2.2 compliance and redesigned navigation and visualisations for clinical job-planning tools. Dominic blends hands-on engineering across PHP, Symfony, React and modern JS frameworks with practical product sense from roles in health tech, finance, and insurtech. His prior decade as a teacher and experience as a bootcamp instructor give him exceptional communication, mentoring and curriculum design skills that improve team onboarding and cross-disciplinary collaboration. He has a track record of shipping usability-focused features that measurably reduce friction for end users and maintainers. Based in Elmbridge, UK, Dominic also brings unusual domain breadth—from marine science and diving technology studies to reserve service—feeding a pragmatic, systems-thinking approach to problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (hons) Marine Environmental Science, BSc (hons) Marine Environmental Science at University of PortsmouthSoftware Development, Software Development at MakersGTP - Graduate Teacher Training Prog. Education, GTP - Graduate Teacher Training Prog. Education at The Holy Cross SchoolMaster of Science (MSc) Offshore and Ocean Technology specialising in Diving and Underwater Technology, Master of Science (MSc) Offshore and Ocean Technology specialising in Diving and Underwater Technology at Cranfield University
Github Skills (18)
rake10
explore9
twilio9
rails8
twitter8
nodejs7
ruby7
fmi7
react7
css6
javascript6
cli5
logic5
javascript-game4
anonymous1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dmcd84/Beaker_challenge_js
Aug 2017 - Sep 2019
Mini Logic Game using JS
Contributions:48 commits, 3 PRs, 33 pushes in 2 years 1 month
javascript-gamejavascriptlogicgame-logic
dmcd84/Battleships
Dec 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
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