Damien Tanner
Co-Founder, CEO at thoughtbot
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorDamien Tanner is a London-based technology entrepreneur and investor known for turning ambitious ideas into scalable software and services. He began by building apps for the Linux GNOME distro on the HP iPAQ, and went on to co-found and lead ventures across SaaS, developer tools, and GenAI, including Layercode as CEO since 2024. Earlier, he co-founded Pusher, a realtime messaging platform, and led New Bamboo, a London-based digital product studio acquired by thoughtbot, where he served as Managing Director for Europe. He has contributed to climate-tech initiatives such as Open Climate Fix, delivering solar mapping and nowcasting dashboards used by National Grid ESO. Damien also serves on multiple boards and governance roles, including thoughtbot, FINCA UK, ScreenCloud, and Attractions.io, and engages in venture investing through Rebase Ventures. Based in the UK, his career spans Europe and the US, blending hands-on engineering with strategic leadership and a passion for building products that scale and empower teams.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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5kreached
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Github Skills (172)
llama10
csv-parser10
discord-bot10
csv9
nlp9
python9
to-do9
text-parser9
meta9
gpt-29
machine-learning9
hateoas9
delimited9
language-modeling9
csv-reader9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rebase-ventures/rebase-ventures.github.io
Oct 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
dctanner/cloudflare-docs
Apr 2021 - Jul 2024
Cloudflare’s developer docs.
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 years 3 months
cloudflarecloudflare-workersd1
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