Summary
Donovan Chandler is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years of experience and over a decade building full‑stack web applications, currently helping Apple manage global internal services from Oakland, California. He combines hands‑on engineering with technical leadership—designing architectures, driving best practices, interviewing hires, and juggling priorities across five-plus active projects. Donovan moved large internal deployments quickly (e.g., a LAMP site rolled out to 34,000 suppliers) and championed modern tooling like Docker, ES2015+, React, Relay Modern, and GraphQL to reduce developer friction. His background includes deep expertise in FileMaker and custom database solutions, giving him a strong product- and data-focused perspective rare in web-only engineers. He’s known for creating internal open-source libraries and practical utilities that scale within complex corporate environments. Outside headline technologies, Donovan’s career shows a consistent pattern of translating messy business requirements into auditable, maintainable systems.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Religion and Christian Ministry, BA, Religion and Christian Ministry at Warner Pacific College
MA, Organizational Leadership, MA, Organizational Leadership at Azusa Pacific University