Donal Ellis
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolDonal Ellis is a Melbourne-based Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating web applications across Ruby on Rails, PHP, MySQL and MongoDB, and deploying infrastructure to AWS using Chef/Ansible. He combines hands-on engineering with product-minded leadership—having led API redesigns, data-model overhauls, CI/CD and TDD-driven rewrites that support mobile ecosystems and merchant dashboards. His career spans senior roles at GitHub and Perx and a long history of teaching and curriculum design at RMIT, where he championed practical, collaborative learning that mirrors how teams build software. Donal emphasizes user-centered interfaces, shared knowledge, and disciplined processes (Agile, TDD) to turn complex requirements into maintainable systems. A former structural engineer by training, he brings systematic problem-solving and an appreciation for robust design to software architecture.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering at Swinburne University of TechnologyMaster of Technology, IT, Master of Technology, IT at RMIT University
Github Skills (28)
github-enterprise10
github-issues10
github10
backup10
meta9
syntax-highlighting8
sass7
bem7
version-control6
css6
git-addons6
libgit26
react5
versioning5
git-lfs5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
donal/donal.github.io
Apr 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
donal/jsconf-asia-2014-git-and-github-workshop
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:71 commits in 6 days
workshopjsconfsingaporeasia
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