Summary
Mark Donnell is a product and engineering leader based in Belfast with 10 years’ experience building startups and scaled platforms, currently serving as Head of Product & Engineering at RESPONSIBLE. As CTO and founding team member at Haru Ltd he grew engineering to 25 people, launched a high-throughput single-SKU warehousing and marketplace tool used by 600+ UK retailers, and steered a merger into RESPONSIBLE. He blends hands-on technical delivery (Typescript, React Native, Remix, AWS CDK, OpenAI integrations) with product strategy and direct customer engagement to ship practical features that move business metrics. His background spans founding an acquired energy-analytics startup, freelance product engineering across domains from farm marketplaces to AR exhibits, and earlier data and security engineering roles at BT, giving him rare end-to-end experience from hardware-enabled products to cloud-native services. Colleagues would note his appetite for pragmatic automation and turning niche domain knowledge (e.g., agronomy-informed generative tools) into repeatable products.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Software Development (Conversion), Master of Science (M.Sc.) Software Development (Conversion) at Queen's University Belfast
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Sound Engineering And Production, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Sound Engineering And Production at Birmingham City University