Donovan Lowkeen
Lead Software Engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolDonovan Lowkeen is a Lead Software Engineer based in Los Angeles with eight years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer platforms for enterprise and startup environments. He specializes in Kubernetes, Golang, Node.js, Python, and Terraform, and recently delivered a Backstage-driven self-service platform that can provision tenant AWS environments, SSO, and developer tooling in under an hour. Donovan has led migrations from legacy monoliths and Helm v2 to modern microservices and CI/CD practices, improving release cadence and operational resilience at companies like Netskope and Zenni Optical. As a former CTO and co-founder, he combines hands-on system design with people leadership, having managed teams through fast, high-stakes rewrites and production rollouts. He is also a recognized MentorCruise “Top Mentor,” having coached 20+ engineers through career transitions and promotions. Outside work he’s an avid outdoor athlete—surfing, hiking, and playing basketball—which he credits for staying focused during complex engineering challenges.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration, Business Administration at University of California, Irvine - The Paul Merage School of Business
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (30)
node-application7
react-firebase7
mern7
react-responsive6
marketplace6
expressjs6
react5
mongodb5
nodejs5
gift5
react-component5
ecommerce4
calendar-widget4
css4
redux4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dlowkeen/driver-dispatch
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:31 commits, 44 PRs, 39 pushes in 20 days
dispatchnode-jsjavascriptnode-applicationnodejs
dlowkeen/rhiz
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
Small business marketplace, powered by community.
Contributions:109 PRs, 103 pushes, 116 branches in 2 months
marketplaceecommercesmall-business
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