Michael Donat
VP Engineering at Road
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichael Donat is a seasoned engineering leader with over 13 years of hands-on and executive experience building product teams and delivering large-scale digital transformations across fintech, utilities, and ecommerce. As VP Engineering at Road and previously WorldRemit and Utility Warehouse, he has scaled organisations from legacy stacks to cloud-native, event-sourced microservices running on Kubernetes with Go, TypeScript and modern CI/CD practices. He combines strategic leadership—establishing heads of engineering, portfolio investment and EVP—with a bias for hiring, talent development and engineering culture that prioritises autonomy and end-to-end ownership. Comfortable in the weeds, he has led replatforming efforts, introduced TDD/BDD and DevOps practices, and personally contributed to architecture and delivery while growing teams to 100+. Based in St Albans, he pairs technical depth (computer science with neural networks background) with pragmatic change management to make transformational programmes stick. Notably, Michael’s approach emphasizes creating environments engineers love—where experimentation, learning and high-quality, frequent delivery are expected.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, specialisation Neural Networks, Computer Science, specialisation Neural Networks at Politechnika Śląska w Gliwicach
Polish, English
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Github Skills (67)
testing10
stream-wrapper10
phpunit10
javascript10
mapper10
phpspec10
unit-testing10
filesystem10
frontend10
react10
fugue9
ansible9
simulator9
mud9
python9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
michael-donat/tf-scripts
Dec 2012 - Jan 2015
Contributions:165 commits, 1 push in 2 years 1 month
michael-donat/tf-mapper
Feb 2013 - Jun 2020
Mapper application for MUD games. Designed to work with console client tiny-fugue. Project completed.
Contributions:156 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 7 years 5 months
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