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Donald Woodward

@donaldwoodward

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Senior full-stack engineer driving scalable systems, performance, and secure architectures.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior engineering roles building scalable, secure systems with strong engineering practices, CI/CD, and opportunities to lead architecture and mentor teams.

I am a Senior Software Engineer and Architect with over 10 years designing and building scalable full-stack systems across Real Estate, E-commerce, HealthTech, and Education. I specialize in modern frontend frameworks and robust backend services to deliver high-throughput, reliable products.

I've led multi-engineer teams to build nationwide healthcare platforms, high-performance transactional APIs processing 50K+ RPM, and unified origination flows that reduced CPU utilization by 35%. I focus on measurable performance gains, security compliance, and developer velocity.

My technical breadth spans React/Next.js, React Native, Angular, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Python, Kafka, Spark, and Kubernetes, coupled with deep experience in AWS, CI/CD, and observability. I have a track record of improving SEO, reducing TTI, cutting deployment times, and increasing test coverage across products.

I emphasize secure, compliant systems (HIPAA, FHIR, TLS/mTLS, OAuth/JWT) and maintain high reliability standards. I enjoy building reusable component libraries, architecting GraphQL gateways, and creating data pipelines that enable real-time features and business-critical analytics.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Blend

Dec 2022 - Sep 2025 (2 years 9 months)

Led development of unified mortgage and auto loan origination systems, improving CPU utilization by 35% and boosting SEO funnel ranking from page 3 to page 1 while processing peaks of 50K+ requests per minute with P99 latency ~95ms.

React Next.js React Native TypeScript Ruby on Rails GraphQL AWS Kubernetes Kafka

Senior Software Engineer

Curative Inc

Feb 2020 - Nov 2022 (2 years 9 months)

Led a team of 6 to build and scale a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination platform serving millions, implemented real-time scheduling handling 100k+ weekly appointments and synchronized records across 50+ state registries with reliable RabbitMQ pipelines.

React Next.js fastAPI Python Redis RabbitMQ PostgreSQL Docker GitHub Actions

Senior Full Stack Developer

Valtech

Jul 2018 - Feb 2020 (1 year 7 months)

Maintained and extended React and Angular UIs for e-commerce, reduced technical debt by 30%, delivered sub-100ms real-time inventory via WebSockets, and integrated Kafka–Spark pipelines for near real-time analytics.

React Angular WebSockets Kafka Spark PostgreSQL Cassandra Docker Kubernetes

Software Engineer

Remind

Mar 2016 - Jun 2018 (2 years 3 months)

Optimized Flask and Django microservices powering two-way messaging with 99.99% uptime, built real-time Angular features supporting up to 1M concurrent users, and containerized services to streamline deployments.

Python Flask Django Angular PostgreSQL Redis Docker AWS ECS

Full Stack Developer

RealtyMogul

Jan 2015 - Mar 2016 (1 year 2 months)

Revamped investor and borrower dashboards increasing engagement 25%, refactored ActiveRecord queries to achieve a 90% cache hit rate, and implemented financial schemas for Regulation A+ compliance within a 3-month window.

Ruby on Rails MySQL JavaScript AngularJS ActiveRecord Caching AWS Testing REST APIs

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

National University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2010 - 2014

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with coursework and projects across software engineering, distributed systems, and web development.