Christian Damus
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarChristian Damus is a seasoned software developer with 14 years of experience crafting reliable, model-driven systems and mentoring teams. He combines deep expertise in Java, C, Objective‑C, Smalltalk and Ruby with strong modeling skills (OOA&D, UML, OCL) and Eclipse platform technologies (PDE, EMF, GMF, UML2). Comfortable across macOS and UNIX/Linux environments and working with RDBMS/SQL, he focuses on creative problem solving and pragmatic design. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he has applied his performance engineering skills to optimize startup times for the widely used Eclipse Theia IDE, integrating regression checks and reporting into CI workflows. Colleagues describe him as dependable, engaging, and effective at turning complex requirements into maintainable software.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (19)
github-ci10
performance-analytics10
performance-monitor10
typescript10
performance-measurement10
performance-analysis10
typescript-types10
performance-tuning10
typescripts10
performance-monitoring10
githubaction-workflow10
electron9
javascript9
cloud98
continuous-integration8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-theia/theia
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Eclipse Theia is a cloud & desktop IDE framework implemented in TypeScript.
Role in this project:
Performance Engineer
Performance EngineerContributions:58 reviews, 3 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Christian focused on measuring and improving the performance of the Eclipse Theia IDE, specifically targeting Electron and browser application startup times. Their contributions included refactoring performance measurement scripts, creating new scripts for Electron startup, and integrating these tests into the build process. They also added the capability to report performance results for GitHub, and configured the workflow to check for regressions and publish results.
cloud-ideide-frameworkelectrontheiajavascript
cdamus/modelserver
Aug 2019 - Jul 2023
Server for synchronizing (EMF-based) models in a single-user scenario
Contributions:24 pushes, 28 branches in 4 years
emfscenariosingle-user
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