Kellen Donohue
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Postman
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKellen Donohue is a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer with 14 years of experience building large-scale, real-time analytics and decision systems at companies including Postman, Palantir, Google, Facebook and Microsoft. He has led multiple 6-engineer teams delivering production pipelines that process terabytes per day, a 60+ source entity-resolution workflow, and real-time flight and industrial telemetry systems that enable seconds-level anomaly detection and operational optimization. A patent-awarded technical leader, he’s fluent in Spark, Kafka, Flink and stream processing, and has practical experience applying Generative AI to operational workflows. He pairs hands-on engineering with product-oriented deployment work—shipping OAuth2 client libraries and enterprise-facing services used across dozens of customers. Based in San Francisco, he brings a rare blend of academic rigor from a UW MS in CSE and extensive field deployment experience across regulated and high-availability domains. Colleagues rely on him to turn messy, heterogeneous data sources into auditable, real-time decision surfaces.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science and Engineering at University of WashingtonBothell High School
English
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Github Skills (89)
anomaly-detection10
pycaret10
python10
forge10
regression10
gpu10
clustering10
spark-ml10
conda-forge10
cpplint10
recurring10
classification10
conda10
pdfplumber10
css10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
palantir/pyspark-style-guide
Dec 2020 - May 2024
This is a guide to PySpark code style presenting common situations and the associated best practices based on the most frequent recurring topics across the PySpark repos we've encountered.
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 comment in 3 years 5 months
code-stylepythonocto-correct-managedfrequentspark-ml
conda-forge/kaggle-environments-feedstock
Jan 2023 - Oct 2024
A conda-smithy repository for kaggle-environments.
Contributions:1 review, 14 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 9 months
kagglepythoncondasmithyplacement
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