Jesse G. Donat

Senior Software Engineer with 15+ years building scalable, high-traffic systems in Go, JS/TS, and PHP. Experienced in database optimization, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure. Seeking to bring this expertise to a high-impact team.

Experience

• Works with a team of developers in an agile, pull-request-driven workflow. Previously managed a team in a similar environment.
• Maintain scalability and reliability on a system used by hundreds of thousands of students daily.
• Developed and maintains an internal deployment system using GitHub WebHooks and Slack/IRC.
• Designed and developed an internal scalable and reliable message queue (in Go) with instant crash recovery capable of hundreds of thousands of requests per second.
• Developed numerous internal high throughput low latency data processing systems.

Technical Skills

• Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, PHP, HTML5, Modern CSS & Preprocessors, Ruby
• MySQL / EC2 Aurora, Redis, Memcache, Gearman, AWS (EC2 / S3 / SQS / RDS / ElastiCache…)
• Database query analysis and optimization for high traffic
• Strong familiarity with the AWS ecosystem
• Docker based development, continuous integration and deployment
• Unit testing (Go / Jasmine / Mocha / PHPUnit)
• Code sniff development / building lexers and parsers for code verification
• Code review / pull request based workflow
• Version Control - Very well versed with git, some Mercurial
• Electron applications
• nginx / Apache
• Linux command line

Other Skills

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated and able to work independently

Speaking

"Beautiful PHP CLI Scripts", MidwestPHP Conference. St. Paul, MN, March 2013
Slides: slideshare.net/donatJ1/beautiful-phpcli-scripts

Personal Projects

A large selection of personal projects can be found at github.com/donatj.

Shielded.dev

A web application for generating dynamic README shields. Written in Go, it generates SVG images for use in README files on GitHub and other services. It is a fully open REST API with a public SDK.

• Shielded.dev
• github.com/ShieldedDotDev/shieldeddotdev

Emoji.boats

An emoji search engine, written in Go. Runs as a container on DigitalOcean. Provides information about the individual runes making up Unicode emoji characters.

• Emoji.boats

SQLRead

MySQL dump parser, allowing querying data without loading into MySQL for quicker simple processing. Implements a simple SQL parser, both for parsing dumps as well as for the interactive frontend. Implements concurrent multithreaded parsing and lexing.

• github.com/donatj/sqlread

Employment History

Renaissance Learning – Bloomington, MN 2018 - Present

Senior Software Engineer

Senior contributor on high-traffic systems serving hundreds of thousands of daily users. Work across the stack — backend services, frontend interfaces, and infrastructure. Drive improvements from architecture through deployment in a fast-paced, pull-request-driven agile workflow.

myON – Bloomington, MN 2017 - March 2018

Senior Data Integration Developer

Focused on making data stores and reporting systems scalable and accessible. Worked daily with S3, Aurora (MySQL), Go, Redis, PHP, and TypeScript. The company was later acquired by Renaissance Learning.

Capstone Digital – Bloomington / Edina, MN 2011 - 2017

Senior Application Programmer 2013 – 2017
Application Programmer Sept 2011 – 2013

Focused primarily on backend development for an online student reading application, along with several other education-focused products.

Ecreativeworks – Plymouth, MN 2006 - 2011

Lead Developer 2010 – Sept 2011
Senior Developer 2008 – 2010
Developer Dec 2006 – 2008

Developed many client projects, and grew from entry-level to lead developer.
Designed and maintained our E-Commerce and CMS platforms used by a broad client base. Oversaw our development team, workflow and collaborated with leadership.

Education

Brown College – Brooklyn Center, MN 2004 - 2006

Associates of Science Software Development