Mike Donnalley is a Lead Software Engineer with a decade of experience building web applications, developer tooling, and backend automation at companies including Salesforce and ICX Media. He brings full-stack fluency in TypeScript, Node, Clojure, and Python, and has led teams to rebuild analytics dashboards, optimize ETL and Spark jobs (saving six figures annually), and design clustering and microservice systems. At Salesforce he now focuses on improving developer workflows and release automation, contributing to the widely used oclif CLI by streamlining builds, enhancing Windows packaging, and adding darwin-arm support. A pragmatic engineering leader and mentor, he pairs hands-on coding with product collaboration and rigorous code review. Based in Louisville, Colorado and educated at Duke, he blends enterprise-scale reliability with open-source sensibility and a willingness to tackle platform-level build and release complexity.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at Duke University
CLI for generating, building, and releasing oclif CLIs. Built by Salesforce.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Contributions:84 reviews, 45 commits, 211 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Mike focused on improving the build and release process for the oclif CLI. Their contributions include restructuring the build process with the removal of the `pretarball` step, enhancing the Windows packaging, adding and modifying scripts for creating windows installers and ensuring that the tool correctly handles situations where the necessary environment variables are not set. Additionally, the user introduced support for darwin-arm tarballs and also included options to specify the compression used for deb packages.
Contributions:1 release, 204 reviews, 122 commits in 1 year 9 months
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Mike Donnalley - Lead Software Engineer at Salesforce