👋 Hi, I'm Damien.
Engineering is taste. I start with the person, not the stack.
Staff Software Engineer working backwards from the user — asking what's worth building before asking how to build it, accelerating time-to-market through well-reasoned trade-offs, and building teams where the work is rigorous and the room is good to be in.
Places I've grown and contributed to
Select a company to see my journey there
Ultimated Knowledge
theuki.com- •Cybersecurity training platform deployable for the US government.
- •Architecture for hands-on lab platform, content delivery, and user events processing
- •TypeScript · Express · Java · Go · Kubernetes
Staff Software Engineer
Sep. 2023 – Apr. 2025
Consultant
Staff Software Engineer
Aug. 2025 – Present
Consultant
Smartsheet
www.smartsheet.com- •Collaborative work management platform used by Fortune 500 companies
- •Designed usage metering and billing orchestration system for premium add-on capabilities
- •Java · Spring Boot · AWS EventBridge · SNS/SQS · RDS
Staff Software Engineer
May. 2025 – Jul. 2025
Consultant
Nordstrom
www.nordstrom.com- •Supply chain modernization — middleware integrating warehouse management systems at scale
- •Built reusable stream processing framework and custom Terraform provider adopted across many teams
- •Java · Kafka · Kubernetes · Terraform · AWS
Sr. Software Engineer
Mar. 2022 – Oct. 2022
Full-time
Sr. Software Engineer
May. 2019 – Dec. 2020
Consultant
Gamestop
www.gamestop.com- •E-commerce backend modernization — migrating legacy monolith to scalable microservices
- •Rebuilt APIs across cart, checkout, loyalty, and payment domains for web and mobile
- •Java · Spring Boot · Kubernetes · AWS · Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Sr. Software Engineer
Aug. 2021 – Nov. 2021
Consultant
T-Mobile
www.t-mobile.com- •Internal GIS platform exposing geospatial data and maps for customer eligibility analysis
- •Built data ingestion pipeline and backend serving telecom coverage data to business analysts
- •TypeScript · NestJS · React · PostgreSQL · CARTO · AWS
Sr. Software Engineer
Jan. 2021 – Jul. 2021
Consultant
Upday
www.upday.com- •News aggregator pre-installed on Samsung devices — 30M+ users across 16 European countries
- •Maintained personalized feed engine, editorial tools, and recommendation services across 25+ microservices
- •Kotlin · Spring Boot · Elasticsearch · AWS · Terraform
Software Engineer
Sep. 2017 – Aug. 2018
Full-time
- •Junior&Cie — iOS app enabling safe solo travel for children on France's national railways
- •Built travel management, real-time notifications, and e-ticket verification features
- •Swift · RxSwift · Realm · MVVM · OneSignal
Mobile Developer
Apr. 2017 – Aug. 2017
Consultant
ENGIE
www.engie.com- •Homnistat — smart thermostat with budget-based heating optimization, 2× CES 2016 award winner
- •Developed Android and iOS apps with Bluetooth pairing, real-time sync, and multi-zone scheduling
- •Java · Swift · Firebase · IoT · Bluetooth
Mobile Developer
Oct. 2015 – Mar. 2017
Consultant
Banque de France
www.banque-france.fr- •Banknote tracking system for the French central bank's cash distribution network
- •Developed ledger features and batch processing for inter-warehouse inventory management
- •Java · JBoss EAP · Maven · Oracle DB
Jr. Software Engineer
Feb. 2015 – Sep. 2015
Consultant
Words from people I've built with
I supported Damien as his manager for almost 2 years. In that time Damien showed a tremendous work ethic and dedication to quality. He loved to discuss how to write and improve code, but unlike many who can talk in depth about the craft, he also followed through with quality, timely implementation. He served as a mentor for the more junior engineers on the team, and was open to coaching from more…
Senior Engineering Manager @ Nordstrom
Damien is one of those software engineers that just made my life super easy. He is very well versed in not just software but infrastructure, and it is a trait that is hard to find these days. I could hand Damien any major task, and it would just be done well the first time. When it came to mentoring and coaching other engineers, Damien set the bar. His passion ensured they were well supported…
Software Architect @ Nordstrom