Donna Benjamin
Senior Engagement Lead, Open Innovation Labs
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDonna Benjamin is a senior engagement lead and product owner with 18 years’ experience helping organisations design and deliver open, people-centered innovation through Red Hat’s Open Innovation Labs and the Open Practice Library. She combines facilitation, product stewardship and agile coaching to unlock real customer needs and build the skills teams require to sustain change. A long-time open source advocate and community leader, Donna has chaired conferences, served on nonprofit boards including the Drupal Association, and driven outreach for projects like the Open Invention Network. She also runs a micro-business focused on Drupal web services and events, bringing hands-on delivery experience to strategic engagements. Trained in theatre and marketing, she leverages storytelling and stagecraft to craft compelling keynotes and change narratives that motivate first steps. Based in Melbourne, Donna blends board-level governance experience with practical product and community work that helps organisations move from ideas to repeatable practice.
18 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
VCE English English Literature Politics Economics European History, VCE English English Literature Politics Economics European History at Princes Hill Secondary CollegeGrad Dip Internet and Web Computing, Grad Dip Internet and Web Computing at RMIT UniversityWomen in Senior Leadership Development Program, Women in Senior Leadership Development Program at Melbourne Business SchoolVCE Dutch, VCE Dutch at Victorian School of LanguagesBachelor of Arts (B.A. Honours) Graduate Diploma of Humanities Theatre and Drama English, Bachelor of Arts (B.A. Honours) Graduate Diploma of Humanities Theatre and Drama English at La Trobe University
English, Dutch
Github Skills (75)
javascript10
openframeworks10
react10
dm9
npm-package9
chat9
k8s9
customisation9
static-site9
helm8
collaboration8
argocd8
slack8
webrtc8
cms7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openpracticelibrary/opl-media
Oct 2021 - Feb 2025
Optimized and compressed media hosting for OPL
Contributions:1 review, 19 PRs, 35 pushes in 3 years 5 months
hostingoptimizedvideooplcompressed
kattekrab/veyepar
Jan 2015 - Oct 2022
Video Eyeball Processor and Review
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 10 months
videoreview
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