Chris Damour
Principal Engineer at J.R. Simplot Company
Boise, Idaho, United States
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Top SchoolChris Damour is a Principal Engineer with 13 years of experience crafting resilient, event-driven systems and mentoring teams from junior developers into senior delivery engines. Based in Boise, he blends pragmatism and curiosity across cloud-native platforms (Azure, OpenShift, GitOps), microservices, CQRS/Event Sourcing, and reactive JVM stacks (Akka, Rx, Scala, Java, .NET). He’s known for turning architectural vision into adoptable standards and reference implementations that make long-term maintenance easier, and for stubbornly integrating on‑prem and cloud with serverless and SRE practices. Chris also champions hypermedia REST, inventive front-end work (including Svelte and WASM experiments), and quietly maintains open-source tooling that aims to be the thing people later recommend without knowing it came from him.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science at Michigan State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
linq10
command-line-interface10
swagger10
metadata10
adonisjs10
azure-cli10
svg10
openapi10
cheerio10
microsoft-sql10
hashicorp10
api10
mapper10
azure-resource-manager10
dom10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
hyperfit/hyperfit
Jun 2014 - Jan 2019
Hyperfit is library for consuming the resources & hypermedia controls of RESTful Applications & Hypermedia APIs inspired by Retrofit
Contributions:266 commits, 6 pushes in 4 years 8 months
apihypermediaretrofitrestfulrest
drdamour/slack-tomcat-lifecycle
Jan 2015 - May 2020
A way to have tomcat lifecycle events broadcast to a slack chat
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 5 years 4 months
eventslifecyclechatbroadcasttomcat
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