Donal Linehan
Automations Team Lead
Cork, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolDonal Linehan is an Automations Team Lead at Teamwork.com with 12 years of experience building and scaling web and chat platform features from the UI to OS integration. He progressed through full-stack and leadership roles at the same company, combining hands-on coding with people management and delivery ownership. Donal contributes to open source projects focused on developer ergonomics and UX—work that includes front-end autocomplete enhancements for mentions and practical cross-platform launch utilities. He has deep practical knowledge of JavaScript ecosystems, Node.js testing with jsdom, and platform-specific debugging for Windows and macOS. Based in Cork, Ireland and educated in Computer Science at University College Cork, he brings continuity and institutional knowledge to long-lived product teams. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic fixes that improve stability and developer experience across the stack.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University College Cork
Github Skills (15)
uid10
autocomplete10
git-repository10
javascript10
nodejs10
cross-platform10
front-end-development10
jquery10
ui-design10
multiplatform10
coffeescript10
package-repository10
macos9
github-ci3
githubaction-workflow3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Teamwork/node-auto-launch
Aug 2014 - Apr 2016
Launch applications or executables at login (Mac, Windows, and Linux)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 9 reviews, 38 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Donal primarily contributed to enhancing the cross-platform functionality of the application launcher. They addressed platform-specific issues on Windows and macOS, fixing bugs and refining the application path handling. This included modifications to the core logic for Windows registry interactions, changes to the macOS implementation for login items, and supporting different app naming conventions. The user's work ensured the application's core features function correctly across multiple operating systems.
windowselectronexecutableslinuxmac
ichord/At.js
Jun 2014 - Jun 2015
Add Github like mentions autocomplete to your application.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Donal primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the `at.js` repository, a project aimed at providing GitHub-like mentions autocomplete functionality. Their contributions involved fixing white space issues and removing a `hide_event` variable. The commits reflect a focus on improving the functionality and stability of the autocomplete feature. The user also added support for noConflict with jQuery.
autocompletegithub-like
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