Hi, I'm Donavon West
I'm a full-stack software engineer, web developer, author, and speaker, living in the New York City area. I work as an independent contractor at Donavon, LLC.
I currently find myself "between gigs" at the moment (i.e. unemployed). I'm looking for full time or contract work (remote or in NYC).
Please read some of my blog posts to see what I'm made of. You can also download my resume or visit my LinkedIn.
Praise and Accolades
His attention to detail and passion for the end user are unmatched. Donavon also brings energy, thoughtfulness, and curiosity to every task and project, which makes working with him feel less like a handoff and more like a true partnership between engineering, design, and marketing. Any team would be lucky to work with him, and I’m excited to see what he brings to life in his next role!
Donavon is a phenomenal principal engineer. He was incredibly knowledgeable in front-end engineering practices… Any company would be lucky to have his expertise and passion applied to its initiatives. I hope to work with Donavon again soon.
[Donavon] is the sort of leader managers love to have and engineers love to work for… He delivers high quality product on schedule. His technical and people skills and depth of experience make him a great leader and mentor.
Donavon is an incredibly talented engineer. At Daffy, he consistently operated with strong ownership and judgement across both product and marketing. He was a strong partner to marketing leadership, especially on high visibility work like our new homepage and immensely successful holiday fundraising campaigns. He has a rare combination of technical depth and product understanding.
It's rare that you come across standout talent like Donavon… [His] ability to juggle multiple projects and incidents was unlike any I've seen before and made a dramatic difference in the productivity level of our team… Donavon would be an asset to any team.
I would highly recommend Donavon to any team looking for thoughtful software engineering and technical leadership, and needs high quality enterprise applications built in a timely manner.
I had the pleasure of working tangential to @donavon at AMEX very early in my career.
His sage level wisdom mixed with his ability to stay current with ever changing technology makes him one of the 🐐's to me.
My Tech Stack
TypeScript is a programming language developed and maintained by Microsoft. It is a strict syntactical superset of JavaScript and adds optional static typing to the language.
React is an open-source front-end JavaScript library for building user interfaces based on UI components. It is maintained by Meta (i.e. Facebook) and a community of developers.
Remix is a full stack web framework that lets you focus on the user interface and work back through web fundamentals to deliver a fast, slick, and resilient user experience.