Donovan Hare
Co-Founder & CTO at Agant Finance
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDonovan Hare is a London-based Co-Founder & CTO with 11 years of experience building backend-first web platforms and leading technical teams across startups and large organisations. He blends hands-on PHP/Laravel expertise with product and data-driven strategy—previous roles include founding a successful edtech consultancy, leading national-scale digital platforms at The Royal Household, and shaping data/AI platforms at BT. A pragmatic architect and quick learner, Donovan has shipped OAuth2 enhancements upstream to Laravel Passport, demonstrating an eye for secure, extensible backend design. Equally comfortable setting technical direction as he is writing core infrastructure, he focuses on scalable systems that deliver measurable impact for users and businesses.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Harrow School
Github Skills (9)
php10
laravel10
passportjs10
oauth10
laravel-mix10
database9
databases9
testing8
eloquent8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/passport
Jul 2018 - Jan 2019
Laravel Passport provides OAuth2 server support to Laravel.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 13 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Donovan primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Laravel Passport package. Their work involved adding and configuring refresh token functionality. Specifically, the user implemented a refresh token model, made the model configurable, created a refresh token repository, and updated existing repositories to use the new features. These changes demonstrate a focus on the OAuth2 server implementation and its underlying architecture.
phpauthenticationoauth2-serverpassportlaravel
donovanhare/Small-County-RP
Nov 2014 - Mar 2017
Contributions:1 release, 23 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 4 months
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