Struan Donald
Developer at mySociety
St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolStruan Donald is a pragmatic developer with 17 years of hands-on experience building web and training software, currently crafting civic tech at mySociety from St Andrews, Scotland. His background spans PHP, JavaScript, SQL, C# and Java applets, and includes team leadership roles shipping monitoring and RM solutions at GFI. Struan thrives on practical problem-solving—delivering content delivery systems, live scoring, and bespoke training tools—and values collaboration, describing his current work as “making good things with nice people.” Having worked through the dot-com era to modern civic projects, he brings a steady, unflashy expertise that turns legacy constraints into reliable, maintainable systems.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of St Andrews
Stackoverflow
151reputation
5kreached
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Github Skills (88)
phonegap10
parser10
democracy10
perl10
parliament10
candidate10
crowd10
vagrant10
extjs10
data-platform10
transparency10
adapter10
cordova10
geoserver10
scraper10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
everypolitician-scrapers/spain_congreso_es
Jan 2016 - Oct 2018
Details of members of the Spanish Congress from the official website congreso.es
Contributions:3 PRs, 13787 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 8 months
detailscongressmembers
struan/feedme
Oct 2012 - Oct 2019
Contributions:81 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
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