Michael Donahue
Software Engineer at Writer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Donahue is a seasoned full‑stack Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web platforms and developer tooling across startups and large companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has shipped production-ready systems from browser extensions and recruiting platforms to merchant-facing infrastructure at DoorDash, with deep expertise in React, Next.js, Node.js, ElasticSearch, and distributed Postgres. As an early engineer and later staff leader at Candidate Labs he architected a custom query AST, integrated GPT for recruiter workflows, and helped scale search and telemetry for millions of records while also designing UX and hiring engineers. Michael blends hands-on engineering with product-minded leadership—he routinely influences cross-functional teams, reduces time-to-ship, and turns messy legacy code into maintainable systems. Outside work he’s an outdoors-and-adventure enthusiast who started coding at 12, a background that fuels both his technical curiosity and pragmatic approach to building fast, reliable products.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Fluency in Javascript Computer Software Engineering, Fluency in Javascript Computer Software Engineering at Hack ReactorBachelor of Science (B.S.) Finance and Financial Management Services, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Finance and Financial Management Services at Bryant University
Github Skills (200)
postgresql10
testing10
databases10
sap10
material-ui10
javascript10
react-components10
browser10
ionic10
mui10
sql10
hana10
data-mapper10
database10
angular10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
meebix/modern-web-app-2
Jun 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:88 PRs, 128 pushes, 34 branches in 7 months
doc-kits/react
Nov 2018 - Apr 2019
A collection of React UI components to enhance your documentation
Contributions:31 releases, 264 PRs, 418 pushes in 4 months
doc-kitsreactreact-ui-componentsenhancedesign-system
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