Michael Donat
VP Engineering at Road
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichael Donat is a seasoned engineering leader with over 13 years of hands-on and executive experience building product teams and delivering large-scale digital transformations across fintech, utilities, and ecommerce. As VP Engineering at Road and previously WorldRemit and Utility Warehouse, he has scaled organisations from legacy stacks to cloud-native, event-sourced microservices running on Kubernetes with Go, TypeScript and modern CI/CD practices. He combines strategic leadership—establishing heads of engineering, portfolio investment and EVP—with a bias for hiring, talent development and engineering culture that prioritises autonomy and end-to-end ownership. Comfortable in the weeds, he has led replatforming efforts, introduced TDD/BDD and DevOps practices, and personally contributed to architecture and delivery while growing teams to 100+. Based in St Albans, he pairs technical depth (computer science with neural networks background) with pragmatic change management to make transformational programmes stick. Notably, Michael’s approach emphasizes creating environments engineers love—where experimentation, learning and high-quality, frequent delivery are expected.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, specialisation Neural Networks, Computer Science, specialisation Neural Networks at Politechnika Śląska w Gliwicach
Polish, English
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Github Skills (88)
python10
stream-wrapper10
directories10
declarative10
javascript10
fugue10
flysystem10
stream10
phpspec10
typescript10
filesystem10
user-interface10
frontend10
react10
ansible9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
michael-donat/tf-scripts
Dec 2012 - Jan 2015
Contributions:165 commits, 1 push in 2 years 1 month
michael-donat/org-chart
Feb 2018 - Jul 2024
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
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