Donovan Chong
Lead Software Engineer at Mantel Group
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDonovan Chong is a Lead Software Engineer based in Melbourne with over a decade of hands-on experience delivering enterprise Java solutions and integrations for banks, telecoms and fintechs. He has led architecture and delivery at Mantel Group, driving large-scale integration projects at MeBank including middleware replacements, card payments with FIS, and fraud detection initiatives with IBM Safer Payments and GBG Instinct. Known for turning proofs-of-concept into production-ready systems, he excels at discovery, scoping and stakeholder management while mentoring dev teams on direction and best practices. His background spans refactoring legacy platforms, building billing systems for mobile operators across Africa and rapid POCs for ANZ, showing a pragmatic balance of incremental modernization and strategic design. Notably, his career blends deep Java engineering with a knack for bridging business requirements and technical architecture across complex, regulated domains.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) Information Technology Project Management, Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) Information Technology Project Management at University of the WitwatersrandComputer Programming, Computer Programming at Van Zyl & Pritchard
Github Skills (15)
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flutter-plugin8
flutter7
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tensorflow-lite7
dart6
android5
tensorflow5
ios5
location-tracking3
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DonC83/spring-localstack
May 2022 - Apr 2024
Contributions:3 reviews, 23 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 10 months
DonC83/learn
Mar 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:20 commits, 17 pushes in 10 months
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