John Donahue
Senior Android Engineer at Block
San Carlos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Donahue is a Senior Android Engineer in San Carlos with nine years focused on shipping reliable, customer-facing Android products at Block (Square), currently contributing to Square Register and Square Terminal. He combines hands-on mobile engineering with deep leadership experience from prior roles as an engineering manager and director at Guidewire, where he led large cross-functional teams, delivery of major product releases, and cloud services. Comfortable scaling both teams and systems, he has driven process improvements—introducing Kanban for maintenance, building intern programs, and consolidating testing/tooling—to improve productivity and product quality. His background spans core systems, performance engineering, and customer-facing features, giving him a rare blend of low-level technical depth and strategic program leadership. Notably, he transitioned from political science to CS, earning an MS in Computer Science, which informs his pragmatic, communication-forward approach to engineering.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Political Science and History, Bachelor's degree, Political Science and History at Duke UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Github Skills (9)
kotlin8
state-machine8
kotlin-library6
reactive6
android6
ios5
swift5
composable3
android-apps1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
donahuejw/github-udemy
Feb 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
donahuejw/starter-web
Feb 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:8 pushes in 4 months
initializrstarting-pointjavascriptpointproject-website
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