Brian Donohue
Brian is an independent software engineer living in Brooklyn, NY. He is currently the owner of Instapaper, and exploring new products, ideas, and spaces.
Previously, Brian was a Director of Engineering at Pinterest and DoorDash, where he led teams of ~80 engineers. Before that, Brian was an entrepreneur based in NYC. A chapter which started with a failed startup and was bookended by selling Instapaper to Pinterest, and spinning Instapaper out of Pinterest.
Contact
Writing
- Markdown Pain Points
- Surfacing Account Information & Filtering Spam in Zendesk
- Au Revoir, Tumblr
- Cora and Time Shifted Email
- Hotdog or Cheeseburger Image Classifier
- The Closed Web
- Microservices are Technical Debt
- Multi-Level Summarization in Instapaper
- Going Full-Time on Instapaper
- 10 Years of Instapaper
- Building an Inclusive & Diverse Team
- ethTip: Open Source Plugin for ETH Tipping
- Building Fast and Slow
- Five Years without Cigarettes
- Migrating from Mailgun to SES
- Getting the Bigger Role
- Appification of Browser Extensions
- Converting Legacy Safari Extensions
- Dark Mode for Web
- Advice for Software Apprentices
- Tappable Essays
- Thirty
- Minimum Viable Team
- Open Source: IPShortcut
- Medium to Jekyll Conversion Tool
- Y Combinator Podcast: Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition
- Three-day no-meeting schedule for engineers
- Open Letter to the Stevens Committee on the Gianforte Academic Center
- Instapaper Outage Cause & Recovery
- Rebuilding Instapaper Search
- Build your First Alexa Skill
- Instapaper Tweetshots
- Hacking TestFlight Invites
- Bookmarklets are Dead
- Making Instapaper Free
- Instapaper Fragmentions
- Instapaper Onboarding
- Work as hard as everyone else