Donovan Graham
Member Of Engineering at poolside
Netherlands
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDonovan Graham is a seasoned engineering leader with over 20 years of experience building high-volume, real-time applications and a track record of scaling teams and delivering complex agile projects. He combines hands-on principal engineering with product-focused execution—leading architecture, integrations, and realtime collaboration features at companies like Miro and InVision. Donovan has repeatedly shipped new product verticals quickly (notably delivering a multiplayer canvas product in nine months) and thrives at the intersection of technical strategy, team enablement, and long-term ROI on software. He pairs broad technical fluency (React, Node, Go, Kubernetes, AWS, real-time websockets) with product sensibility from startup founding to enterprise transformation. Now based in the Netherlands, he’s transitioned into productizing frontier AI and developer-agent tooling at Poolside, bringing both entrepreneurial grit and large-scale delivery experience. A less obvious strength is his consistent focus on emergent leadership and cultural engineering—helping teams grow autonomy while improving engineering excellence.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Science Information Systems, Bachelor of Business Science Information Systems at University of Cape TownWesterford High SchoolAbbotts College
Github Skills (105)
testing10
ember-cli10
firefox10
api10
command-line-utility10
chrome-extension10
chrome10
javascript9
chromium9
js-api9
rotate9
developer-tools9
expressjs9
chromeless9
nike9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
donovan-graham/ember-hn
Mar 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 58 pushes, 10 branches in 11 months
donovan-graham/dual-client-server
Jul 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:31 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
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