Donal Stewart
Senior Software Engineer at DemonSoft Ltd
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDonal Stewart is a senior software engineer based in Edinburgh with over two decades of hands-on experience designing and delivering object‑oriented systems, particularly in Java and Java EE. He combines deep OOAD and design pattern expertise with Extreme Programming practices—TDD, refactoring and incremental delivery—to lead full‑stack projects across finance, public sector and healthcare. A long‑term consultant and in‑house developer at DemonSoft, he’s repeatedly acted as a bridge between technical delivery and agile adoption for clients such as Mastercard, Scottish Widows and Allica Bank. Donal also contributes to civic tech through volunteer engineering for the Scottish Tech Army, working on data‑heavy dashboards and GIS visualisations. He holds advanced degrees in neuroinformatics and mathematics, bringing research‑level analytical rigor to practical software architecture and team mentoring.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Neuroinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Neuroinformatics at The University of EdinburghMSc, Mathematics, MSc, Mathematics at The Open University
Github Skills (7)
kappa9
self-organizing-map8
phonetics8
abaqus7
factorization7
spatial6
language-extensions5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
davidcsterratt/SpatialKappa
May 2012 - Sep 2012
An implementation of spatial language extensions to Kappa
Contributions:32 commits in 3 months
factorizationlanguage-extensionsspatialphoneticsextensions
DemonSoftUK/bradytest
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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