15+ years technology leadership experience in SaaS, enterprise software, consumer web and social software. Experience working in the US, Europe and Asia from startups to public companies. Lead technology at a number of successful startups in Silicon Valley ranging from early stage startups, through series C and on pre-IPO companies. Engineering leadership of large-scale web and SaaS-based enterprise platforms using a variety of technologies and languages. I’m very pragmatic with a focus on delivering quality working software using agile approaches. At the end of the day I love building innovative products and great engineering teams. MuleSoft delivers the leading platform for cloud and enterprise integration. $500B is spent each year on integration and the problem is growing dramatically with the shift to cloud and SaaS. We're productizing integration -- making it as easy to connect systems and companies as it is to connect with friends on Facebook. We're growing rapidly and we're out to build a great company with a team of people who love to work together. We're hiring brilliant people - if you, or someone you know, is looking for an exciting, fast-paced company at the center of the cloud, please contact me.

VP Engineering @ With over 105,000 developers and 3,200 companies using us in production we're revolutionizing enterprise integration and moving it into the cloud. We make connecting systems and companies together as easy as it is to connect with your friends on Facebook. I lead a stellar engineering team collocated between San Francisco, California and Buenos Aires, Argentina. From December 2012 to Present (3 years 1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaVP Engineering & Chief Technology Officer @ Sociable Labs creates social sharing applications for e-commerce, retail and media. We help people discover what to buy and what to read and provide companies with applications and expertise to create high-velocity social sharing experiences. Our platform consists of social consumer applications built on the Facebook platform, deep analytics and insights. I run the technology organization - product engineering, QA and technical operations using agile and lean startup principles. From November 2011 to December 2012 (1 year 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaVP Engineering @ Lithium provides a revolutionary Social CRM platform enabling enterprises to interact with their customers on the social web. Lithium powers online customer communities for enterprises, allowing them to drive word-of-mouth marketing and reducing support costs. I was responsible for leading the architecture and engineering of Lithium's SaaS-based social CRM platform supporting over 250+ enterprise communities, 20+ million users and over 2 billion page views a month, including large scale customers such as AT&T, Sony, Linksys, Salesforce, MTV and Paypal. I ran the engineering team comprising of 35+ engineers and architects responsible for the technology platform over 4 key areas – Platform, Application, Social Media Monitoring and Analytics. Delivered over 25 new product releases – one every month – and each one comprising of dozens of innovative new features and product improvements. Launched many different platforms and applications including Web apps, iPhone App, Mobile features, Social Media Monitoring, Platform APIs, Developer APIs and self-service customer tooling for customization. Created a highly collaborative, happy and effective team working on short AGILE sprints. Improved engineering best practices through continuous integration, automated testing, frequent releases, performance automation and automating provisioning. Handled all hiring, relationships with recruiters and interviewing. Built up a great team of engineers, mentored new developers and got them up to speed quickly. Responsible for leading the team through many growth periods including Series C Funding of $18M and multiple acquisitions requiring team and technology integration. Lithium is funded by leading venture capital firms Emergence Capital Partners, Shasta Ventures and Benchmark Capital. From May 2009 to November 2011 (2 years 7 months) Chief Technology Officer (CTO) @ CTO for an early stage startup developing a trip planning and social travel platform - funded in part by the Irish government. Partnered with Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland (DERI) to develop shared IP including a semantic web-mining engine and user recommendations platform for the travel space. Developed using 100% Ruby on Rails and combining innovative features including trip planning, recommendations/advice, booking and social features. Deployed using cloud based computing including Amazon EC2 and S3. From June 2008 to May 2009 (1 year) VP Engineering @ Established startup and developer of a SaaS-based enterprise travel platform used by the largest airlines and travel companies in the world including American Airlines, Virgin America and JetBlue. • Provide oversight of a mid-sized technology organization (20+) including in-house, remote and consulting teams. Responsible for technical strategy, planning, engineering, budget and hiring. Actively involved in equity funding including leading technology discussions with VCs and board members. • Lead the architecture and engineering of core platform handling millions of transactions/day and over $1 billion in combined travel booking revenue/year. • Provide leadership for all technology decisions including UI/Ajax, application framework, persistence, caching and supplier integration. Developed on 100% open source using lightweight Java, Spring and Tomcat/JBoss. • Lead the adoption of Ruby on Rails for new Web 2.0 embeddable travel widgets and social networking tools. From May 2007 to May 2008 (1 year 1 month) Principal Architect @ Principal Architect for Epiphany/INFOR CRM enterprise product lines. Reported to CTO and responsible for leading architecture and engineering in a number of key efforts including core J2EE platform, service enablement, BPM integration and UI frameworks. Lead the architecture for the "Open SOA Platform" for all CRM products with a $20mm budget. Comprised of both tooling and runtime platform features for service modeling, development, BPM, and ESB integration. Principal architect for the "E.piphany CRB Platform" – a metadata-driven J2EE and .NET suite for application development including UI framework, screenflow, platform services, ORM persistence, EAI and web services. Lead the technology integration (through 2 acquisitions) and OEM partnership with JBOSS and other vendors. Epiphany was purchased by SSA Global in Sep 2005 and subsequently purchased again by INFOR in 2006. From February 2005 to May 2007 (2 years 4 months) Director of Technology @ Lead the architecture and engineering of enterprise-wide J2EE and .NET trading systems in the US, Europe and Asia - across key enterprises including Global Technology, Architecture, Frameworks and Desktop Technology. Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentoring to 20+ person engineering teams. Responsible for the delivery of software architecture specifications, sizings and project deliverables. Implemented software-development best practices including AGILE, SCRUM, XP, Continuous Integration and automated build/test systems. Architect for one the largest online securities trading systems in the world schwab.com with over 7mm active users. Integrated with mainframe, exchanges (NASDAQ, NYSE) and a variety of enterprise systems. Lead the design and development of the International Order Routing System – a global trading/FX hub integrating international broker-dealer systems in Europe, US and Japan and enabling multi-country trading. From May 1997 to December 2004 (7 years 8 months) Senior Software Engineer @ IBM spin-off providing workflow-based IT consulting to banking and insurance companies in Ireland and the UK. From 1996 to 1997 (1 year) Software Engineer @ Software engineering of sales, order management and logistics systems at Compaq’s European, Middle East and African (EMEA) HQ’s in Germany. From 1993 to 1995 (2 years)

BSc, Applied Mathematics & Computing @ University of Limerick From 1991 to 1995 MCSD, Microsoft Certified Solution Developer @ Microsoft CorporationSCEA, SUN Certified J2EE Enterprise Architect @ SUN Microsystems James Donelan is skilled in: Technical Architecture, REST, Agile Methodologies, Java, SaaS, Cloud Computing, SOA, Software Development, Web Applications, Big Data, Web Services, C#, Software Engineering, Strategy, Integration