Donovan Levinson
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at Oracle
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolDonovan Levinson is a Principal Member of Technical Staff with 12 years of experience designing and operating high-performance distributed systems, currently driving architecture and delivery at Oracle from Oakland. He is fluent in Scala, Java, C/C++, Linux, and actor-based reactive frameworks like Akka, with deep expertise in message-passing, concurrency, and flow-control for fault-tolerant systems. Donovan has a strong track record of scaling production services—migrating billions of records, optimizing latency and CPU usage, and building highly available AMQP clusters—while also shipping front-end work in Scala.js and JavaScript. A pragmatic advocate of test-driven development and CI/CD, he pairs hands-on debugging (JVM tuning, Wireshark) with automation across Jenkins, TeamCity, Puppet and monitoring stacks. He blends functional and object-oriented design idioms, mentors teams as a former scrum master, and brings an applied-mathematics mindset from a B.S. at University of Colorado Boulder to solve complex, performance-sensitive problems.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, B.S., Applied Mathematics, Computer Science at University of Colorado at Boulder
Github Skills (40)
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datastax-enterprise10
cassandra9
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
helios-/HearthstoneBot
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:18 commits in 3 days
levinson/phantom
Mar 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 35 pushes, 6 branches in 2 months
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