Tony Macdonell
Senior Engineering Director - CloudID at Synacor
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Macdonell is a senior engineering leader with two decades of experience building consumer-facing mobile, web, and embedded products used by millions. As co-founder of an award-winning interaction design studio acquired in 2013 and now Senior Engineering Director for CloudID at Synacor, he blends product-first UX sensibilities with hands-on architecture and occasional coding. He has led large multidisciplinary teams delivering mobile SDKs, custom ROMs, React/Preact portal platforms, and NUI installations, and has shipped products for major telecom clients including AT&T, HBO, SiriusXM and Dish. An experienced teacher and mentor, Tony pairs Scrum-driven delivery and observability-focused operations with hiring and technical coaching to scale teams. Notably, he led one of Canada’s early successful Kickstarter-backed mobile projects and helped design the BlackBerry Playbook UI, reflecting a career that moves between pioneering UX experiments and production-grade identity and media platforms.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin CollegeHigh School Diploma Graphic Design, High School Diploma Graphic Design at Confederation High School
Github Skills (14)
preact10
dom10
react9
virtual-dom9
api9
jsx8
testing6
deploying5
keycloak4
dialogflow4
javascript3
typescript3
async3
higher-order-component3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tmtek/keycloak_devkit
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
A template project for authoring and testing Keycloak Themes and SPIs
Contributions:3 reviews, 51 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 10 months
testingkeycloakauthoringthemeskeycloak-themes
tmtek/convo
Oct 2018 - Jun 2019
A javascript library for building, testing and deploying DialogFlow fulfillments easily.
Contributions:5 PRs, 22 pushes, 4 branches in 7 months
deployingjavascript-librarytestingjavascriptdialogflow
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