Tanner Donovan
Back End Developer at Star Atlas
Mill Valley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTanner Donovan is a seasoned back-end developer with 17 years of software engineering experience and 15+ years in lead roles, specializing in Rust, cloud-native architectures, and distributed systems. He has a strong track record building scalable, reliable transaction and fulfillment systems for eCommerce and payment processing, and has led technical transitions that modernized legacy stacks. Comfortable across Ruby/Rails, TypeScript, and AWS serverless services, he combines pragmatic engineering with infrastructure-minded design to ship resilient services at scale. An active open-source contributor, Tanner added testing, integration specs, and a new Try monad to the popular dry-monads Ruby library, underscoring his attention to correctness and developer ergonomics. Based in Mill Valley, he’s been an early cryptocurrency and blockchain enthusiast since 2014 and experiments with game development in Rust frameworks like Bevy and Macroquad, reflecting a curiosity for emerging distributed technologies.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA Information Systems, BA Information Systems at Drake University
English
Github Skills (8)
rspec10
functional-programming10
monads10
dry-rb10
ruby10
rubygems9
gemfile9
gemspec9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dry-rb/dry-monads
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Useful, common monads in idiomatic Ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 9 PRs, 12 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Tanner primarily contributed to the implementation and testing of monads within the `dry-monads` Ruby library. Their work involved adding integration specifications, including tests for `Maybe` and `Try` monads, and defining their behavior for success and failure scenarios. They also extended the library by introducing a new `Try` monad, including its `Mixin`, and implemented the `success?` and `failure?` methods for the `Either` monad. Additionally, they added examples and usage instructions in the `README.md` file.
idiomatictype-safetytest-kitchenfunctional-programmingruby
ttdonovan/emberjs-movies
Apr 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:25 commits in 1 year 5 months
moviesemberjsembermovies-appember-data
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