Nick Donohue
Staff Software Engineer at Stealth AI Startup
Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolNick Donohue is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building full-stack and backend systems, currently shaping AI product engineering at a stealth startup after leading core services at StockX. He has designed and operated high-scale order and ownership systems on AWS—handling tens of millions of orders and a QLDB-backed ledger for digital trading—while also delivering integrations with major retailers. Comfortable across the stack, Nick has led teams, hired and mentored engineers, and implemented CI/CD, Terraform, and data migration pipelines to improve reliability and reduce costs. His background includes modernizing web stacks (React/GraphQL, D3), data pipelines with Lambda, and pragmatic SRE work to drive quality and efficiency. Based in Ferndale, MI, he brings a startup mindset from founding and CTO roles to enterprise-grade SaaS and trading platforms. A less obvious thread through his career is a research-rooted curiosity—work in digital evolution and psychology labs informs a data-driven, experimental approach to engineering decisions.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Culver Military AcademyBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at Michigan State University
English
Github Skills (57)
vector-search10
javascript10
chatgpt10
web-application10
python10
nextjs10
information-retrieval10
java10
llm10
ai-chat10
ai10
creative-commons10
cpp10
cms9
ghost9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chronick/node-hn
Dec 2012 - May 2013
Contributions:19 commits in 5 months
chronick/mandrill-angular
Apr 2013 - Dec 2014
Contributions:13 commits in 1 year 8 months
transactionalemailtransactional-emailangularjsangular
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