Steve Donnelly
Chief Operating Officer
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Donnelly is an operations and people leader with 20+ years scaling high-growth, VC- and PE-backed companies across SaaS, eCommerce, hospitality, and healthcare. He has built People functions from scratch and led talent strategy through hypergrowth and M&A—helping organizations grow from single digits to 1,400+ employees while executing 12 deals and dozens of integrations. As a former CPO/SVP and current fractional consultant and COO, he blends EOS-inspired operating cadence with talent architecture to stabilize teams post-transaction and preserve culture during rapid change. Known for pragmatic, outcome-driven people systems, he partners with founders, boards, and investors to align HR with business metrics. Based in Austin, he also coaches smaller practices (including behavioral health and legal firms) on scaling operations without losing human-centered culture.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Psychology/Speech Communications, B.A. Psychology/Speech Communications at Stephen F. Austin State University
Github Skills (13)
datastax-enterprise8
datastax7
brackets6
cassandra5
database4
apache4
tournament3
react3
sql3
rendering2
coordinates2
react-components1
google1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
stevedonnelly/haskell
Oct 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
stevedonnelly/stargate
Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 1 month
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