§ 01About

Donnish is named after the rigour. Not the noise.

Brisbane software consultancy founded by Quinn van Heerden. Over 20 years across enterprise technology: building products, leading delivery teams, negotiating vendor contracts. Run lean. Named humans. No reseller targets.

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Quinn van Heerden, Founder and Managing Director of Donnish — Quinn van Heerden · Founder and Managing Director

Donnish is a senior team that has shipped and run software together for years, now under one name. The people behind Donnish designed, built and still run drtalk, a Good Design Award winning communications platform for clinicians, and support the STARTTS platform for NSW Health. The company is young; the team and its work are not.

§ 02What we believe

Five things we hold to.

These are the rules we run the business on. They are why clients come back, and why our engineers stay.

Evidence over hype

Numbers, not slogans. We name the saving, name the client, and name the referee you can call.

Named humans, not headcount

You hire people, not a logo. Every engineer has a name, a role, and a tenure. No body shop.

No reseller targets

Procurement advice that earns when you save, never when you spend more. Independent by design.

Lean is a discipline, not a budget

Small teams that ship beat large teams that meet. We staff to the work, not to the invoice.

Brisbane-led, APAC-delivered

Australian leadership. Manila engineering. Same hours, same standards, same accountability.

§ 03Track record

Over 20 years of delivery.

Brisbane-based. Healthcare, government, financial services, mobile financial services, and procurement at enterprise scale. Clickatell. bKash. Vodafone. MTN. Airtel. drtalk. STARTTS.

Brisbane, Australia

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