Hogan Mcdonald
Senior Software Engineer at Hex
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHogan McDonald is a senior full‑stack engineer with nine years building and scaling startup products, primarily in Ruby on Rails and TypeScript/React. He specializes in taking AI-first features from prototype to production—shipping OpenAI + Pinecone recommenders, GitHub-integrated PR copilots, and conversational research tooling that measurably improved engagement and developer velocity. Hogan has a track record of leading migrations and operational improvements (faster deploys, lower MTTR, higher uptime) and has driven platform work that unlocked enterprise revenue. He thrives in early-stage environments where he can own end-to-end delivery and shape technical direction, favoring practical solutions that ship over exploratory experiments. Based in Minneapolis, he brings hands-on engineering leadership across infrastructure, backend, and frontend stacks and is actively exploring Senior/Staff or Engineering Lead roles at AI-native startups. An under-the-radar strength: he pairs rapid feature delivery with SRE discipline, routinely cutting incident time and release friction while launching new product capabilities.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Generals - Pastoral Studies, Generals - Pastoral Studies at North Central UniversityGenerals - Spiritual Engagement and Community Leadership Individualized Studies, Generals - Spiritual Engagement and Community Leadership Individualized Studies at Metro State UniversityFull Stack Software Engineering Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Software Engineering Certification Computer Software Engineering at Prime Digital Academy
Github Skills (11)
braintree9
stripe7
google-pay7
adyen7
paddle6
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rails6
sca6
ruby-on-rails5
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ruby4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
HoganMcDonald/resume
Mar 2018 - Nov 2023
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
HoganMcDonald/system_settings
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:57 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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