Neil Donewar
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Donewar is a Senior Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience building full-stack, user-focused products across JavaScript, Java, Go, Ruby, and Python. He has led high-impact projects at GitHub—driving Copilot Spaces, Copilot Chat improvements, and a site-wide search modernization—and now applies that product-and-AI experience at NVIDIA. Neil combines hands-on development with mentoring and onboarding programs that accelerate team velocity and knowledge sharing. He has deep experience in large-scale developer tooling and software supply chain security from leading OSS Index at Sonatype. Comfortable spanning backend, frontend, and infrastructure, he is known for thoughtful, maintainable designs and pragmatic collaboration with product and UX teams. Based in the Raleigh-Durham area, he pairs an M.S. in Computer Science with a long history of shipping mission-critical systems for millions of users.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. in Computer Science, M.S. in Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyB.S. in Computer Information Systems B.A. in Journalism, B.S. in Computer Information Systems B.A. in Journalism at Louisiana Tech University
Github Skills (18)
sonatype10
lift10
maven10
java9
elasticsearch8
goodies8
jenkins-plugin7
nexus-iq7
sisu7
jenkins5
go5
testing4
vulnerability4
guice4
dropwizard4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ndonewar/ndonewar.github.io
May 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches, 1 issue in 4 years 7 months
ndonewar/samegame-react
May 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 4 branches, 43 issues in 4 years
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