The company had just introduced the solutions architect role, and Phil was the first one to fill it. In his career there, he’s found that commitment to continue.įirst, it was with his coworkers and mentors, Dakota and Phil, who introduced him to solutions architecture. It was Logicworks’ commitment to his growth-listening to his interests and inviting him back for another internship that more closely matched them-that convinced Donovan to join Logicworks full-time after graduation. “I was tasked with deploying our first Lambda function, and I felt really proud of myself for being a pioneer in this space.” “AWS had just come out with Lambda, which was serverless technology and just mindblowing, game-changing stuff,” he says. Immediately, Donovan knew he’d found his subject area.
When he flagged that to his manager, she invited him back the next summer to try their DevOps and software engineering internship, which he did. His area of responsibility was network engineering, which he didn’t love. He got the internship (and wore the suit again for his first day-then put it in the closet until he became a solutions architect, but more on that later). Everyone made fun of me -they were in sweatpants. I had a giant afro at the time and I showed up in a suit. “It sounded like that might be the direction the world was going, with ‘that cloud thing,’” he says. His part-time job at his college’s career resource center meant he had an up-close view of the latest internships and job postings, and when he saw a role in cloud computing at Logicworks, he decided to apply. So he decided to pivot and find a role where he could apply his technological skills. That dream stayed with Donovan until college, where he decided to study computer science and economics to build the core two skills needed for his business, but he quickly realized that other companies had filled that market. I’m going to start a technology conglomerate that’s going to combat Apple,” he says. It sparked something in Donovan: “I decided that this is what I’m going to do. (Donovan still enjoys playing them his all-time favorite game is Dark Souls, he says, because it’s extremely hard to play until you understand how it tries to trick you-just like life.)Īlan taught Donovan to program, and the two launched a business building computers and fixing Xboxes for their classmates. Helping Technology Drive BusinessĪs a kid, Donovan and his best friend Alan were big into video games. Donovan has come a long way from being an intern, and we sat down with him to hear more about his career path at Logicworks and his advice for others looking to make the most of opportunities in front of them. Now, seven years later, Donovan is the Director of Solutions Architecture at Logicworks and sees plenty more growth opportunities in front of him, whether that’s evolving the company’s diversity and inclusion group (for which he serves as chairman) or enabling his team to be more strategic partners to their customers. Logicworks truly embodied the value of ‘remember to always have fun.’ I didn’t have to wake up everyday not wanting to go to work. “I felt like I didn’t have to be just a cog.
People were getting work done and going to check on the scores in their free time,” he says. “It was playing on a projector all day, everyday.
He was doing his first internship at cloud services company Logicworks, and his coworkers brought him to the dedicated conference room for watching the games. Donovan Brady knew he’d found the company he wanted to work for during the 2014 FIFA World Cup.