# Connor Donahue > Software Engineer Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/connordonahue Software engineer with 4+ years of startup experience. Co-creator of KlusterFunk: developer-facing dashboard of Kafka cluster metrics, created in partnership with tech accelerator OS Labs. Experienced in building full-stack applications with modern tech stacks (TypeScript, Javascript, Java, NodeJS, GraphQL, AWS, React). Featured speaker in Remake Labs Software Engineering Tech Talk Series: "A Guide To WebSockets: how full-duplex, low latency communication makes the Internet feel alive and connected". Outside of work, I enjoy geeking out over tea, queer history, and experimental cinema, studying Zen practice, and learning Japanese and Spanish. Check out my GitHub: https://github.com/conniedonahue ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Oso Jan 2025 – Present Keeping AI agents from going rogue with automated least privilege. ### Software Engineer @ KlusterFunk Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | United States - Developed a dashboard of Kafka cluster metrics to empower engineers with an interactive UI for pulling actionable insights on stream health with snapshots of bytes in/out, CPU usage, and broker count - Harnessed Prometheus and React Router to scrape Kafka metrics with client-side queries and lazy loading of comprehensive data insights, resulting in a 30% reduction in CPU usage and server strain. - Designed the Kafka Integration Engine in Node.js with Express, capable of ingesting high-throughput data streams exceeding 500 MB per second from Prometheus, ensuring seamless and efficient data flow - Created the Real Time Monitoring Experience with Chart.js, bringing stream performance data to life with an intuitive, vibrant dashboard that updated every 2 seconds, optimized for a delightful developer experience - Boosted build efficiency by 40% and expedited development by switching over to Vite from webpack and leveraging its hot module replacement (HMR) and native ES module imports - Implemented TDD cycle with Vitest’s seamless integration to achieve 95% backend test coverage ### Technical Operations Manager / Engineer @ Ten Percent Happier Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 - Redesigned cloud production infrastructure to halt business-stopping crashes that occurred every 3 months - Built on-prem and AWS cloud media database with hybrid design for 99.999% availability - Systematized QA testing and technical documentation, ensuring content quality for 100K+ subscribers - Maintained websites using HTML/CSS and CMS and led technical education initiatives for 15 team members ### Audio Engineer @ Connor Donahue Audio Jan 2017 – Jan 2023 Freelance sound recordist, dialogue editor, and sound designer. Notable Projects: Trade Center, dir. Adam Baran, 2020. Sound designer, re-recorder mixer. Premiered at SXSW 2021, with write-ups in GQ and Interview Magazine. Cady Did, dir. Megan Hessenthaler, sound recordist. Received 12 nominations and 5 awards from the Indie Series Awards Flu$h, dir. Heather Ács, 2018, respectively. Boom op, sound designer, re-recording mixer. Screened at Outfest, Newfest, and Hollyshorts, written up in Out and i-D Magazine. ### Software Engineer | Spotted Lanternfly Tracker (Open Source) @ Open Source Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 - Leveraged a NoSQL database’s highly flexible, scalable, and performant architecture to streamline development and secure horizontal scalability of performance during fluctuations in user demand. - Optimized builds with Webpack’s minification, uglification, and tree-shaking, resulting in faster load times. ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts - BA New York University Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/connordonahue09 --- Source: https://flows.cv/connordonahue JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/connordonahue/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01