Geoffrey Donaldson
Chief Technology Officer at Australian Franchise Web Solutions
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolGeoffrey Donaldson is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Brisbane with 18 years building feature-rich web applications and leading engineering teams. He co-founded Australian Franchise Web Solutions and has deep hands-on experience across JavaScript (EmberJS/SproutCore), Ruby on Rails, Elixir and server-side Node.js, often bridging UX-focused front ends with robust back-end services. As CTO of Black Box Co and former tech lead at Two Red Kites, he combines strategic product thinking with practical architecture, mentoring, and code-level contributions. Notably, he has a history of designing offline-first sync solutions (hub.js) and advising on client-server syncing and app architecture—skills that surface in both consultancy and product roles.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BIT, Software Development and Data Communications, BIT, Software Development and Data Communications at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
English
Github Skills (127)
testing10
ember-cli10
javascript-framework10
emberjs10
ember10
javascript10
angular10
vue10
svelte10
rfc10
react-native10
ember-addon10
webpack10
react10
html9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
drenovac/nvzn_web
Sep 2011 - Feb 2015
Contributions:144 commits in 3 years 5 months
geoffreyd/geoffreyd.github.io
Mar 2011 - Dec 2022
My Pages
Contributions:34 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 11 years 10 months
jekyll
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