Tom Donohue is a Senior Field Engineer based in London with a decade of experience helping organizations adopt and succeed with complex technologies. He has a strong consultancy background from senior roles at Red Hat and Glue Reply and now applies that expertise at Grafana Labs, bridging technical strategy and hands-on implementation. Comfortable in back-end development, Tom has contributed to Jenkins pipeline libraries, refining Groovy-based global variables that improve CI/CD reuse. His career began in academia and consulting, giving him a practical blend of enterprise and research-facing software experience. Known for being the technical person teams rely on, he pairs client-facing empathy with deep configuration and automation skills.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Higher Education, Certificate of Higher Education at The University of Edinburgh
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) with Honours, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) with Honours at Napier University
A-level, A-level at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield
Demonstration of using a shared library in Jenkins
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:27 commits, 2 PRs, 27 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Tom focused on developing and refactoring Groovy code within the `pipeline-library-demo` repository. Their work primarily involved defining and modifying global variables for use in Jenkins pipelines. The commits demonstrate an iterative approach to defining and refining the structure and functionality of these global variables, including package organization and usage examples. Further work involved adding sample classes.
Hello World application using Undertow - a demo Java app, suitable to use to test pipelines, OpenShift, etc.
Contributions:4 PRs, 60 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 2 months
java-demoundertowmicronautopenshiftsuitable
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Tom Donohue - Senior Field Engineer at Grafana Labs