Kellen Donohue

About Me:

Work:

I am currently employed as a Senior Forward Deployed Software Engineer at Postman HQ in San Francisco, CA. I'm working to help deploy Postman at large enterprises.

I was previously a Forward Deployed Software Engineer at Palantir, from July 2015 to April 2025. I helped customers solve a wide variety of problems with data by deploying and customizing Palantir's products. Projects I worked on included: airline operations, telecom, automotive manufacturing, and finance.
I was awared a patent for my work there: Integrated data authentication system with an interactive user interface

Also, I was a Software Engineer at Google where I worked on Hangouts and Helpouts, from July 2013 to July 2015.

School:

I received a MS from the University of Washington, studying Science & Engineering. I graduated in June 2013. I also hold Bachelors from UW in Computer Engineering and Political Science.

Research:

I conducted Software Engineering research with Mike Ernst and Todd Schiller. My project was adapting the Daikon invariant detector to work with C# and other .NET Languages.

We published our research at ICSE 2014.

I also worked on the LiCORICE project from October 2009 to June 2010.

Internships:

I have interned at Microsoft (2008 & 2009), Facebook (2010 & 2012), and Google (2011). At Microsoft Research I wrote the GUI for Image Composite Editor - a photo stitcher. To learn more please see my resume.

Code:

I've open sourced some projects, research work, and scripts. These can be found on my Github.