Summary
Donald Bough is a software engineer with a decade of experience building highly available, scalable web systems, currently contributing at Amazon after earlier engineering roles at Salesforce. He co-founded Hometown Hiring and GradGrid, demonstrating an entrepreneurial drive to solve community and education challenges through practical web apps. Proficient in JavaScript, C#, Java, and SQL, he blends full-stack engineering with an interest in the business side of product decisions. Donald learns through hands-on side projects and non-profit initiatives, turning experiments into useful services like hometownhiring.com and gradgrid.org. Based in New York, he brings a track record of shipping reliable features in large organizations while maintaining founder-level ownership and product empathy. Notably, his background includes leadership in student tech communities and multiple internships that seeded his focus on impact-driven software.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Purdue University
Jasper High School