Donavon West

Donavon West is a seasoned technology professional currently serving as a Senior Staff Engineer at Daffy since March 2023. Donavon holds the position of President and CTO at Donavon LLC since April 2020. West has a robust background in engineering and developer relations, having worked at American Express from November 2016 to November 2019, where responsibilities included leading full-stack scrum teams and promoting coding best practices. Notable contributions also extend to writing for Hacker Noon and freeCodeCamp, receiving recognition as the "Top Contributor for 2018" by freeCodeCamp. Previously, West held several leadership positions, including Director of Engineering and Acting CTO at Yuzu/Barnes & Noble Education and Manager of Software Development at Barnes & Noble. Donavon's entrepreneurial experience includes ownership of HomeServerHacks.com and Lead Designer at LiveGadgets.net.