Daman Arora
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarDaman Arora is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of experience building and improving cloud-native UIs and developer-facing documentation from Gurugram, India. He currently contributes to Broadcom and serves as a maintainer for Kubernetes documentation at the CNCF, blending product-focused engineering with open-source stewardship. His open-source work spans high-profile projects like Apache Superset (front-end TypeScript migrations), Apache CloudStack UI improvements, and Trino docs, showing attention to developer ergonomics and typed front-end correctness. Daman has moved between startups and large vendors (founding engineer roles to VMware), consistently focusing on front-end reliability, cloud-native patterns, and documentation quality. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic implementer who favors small, impactful changes—refactors to TypeScript, optional chaining, and clearer docs—that reduce long-term maintenance cost. Outside of code he sums up his approach succinctly: living life, one commit at a time.
6 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (30)
javascript10
typescript10
uid10
front-end-development10
sql10
typescript-types10
optional-chaining10
query-engine10
typescripts10
react10
documentation10
ui-design9
apache-cloudstack9
nodejs9
data-visualization8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
trinodb/trino
May 2021 - Mar 2026
Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:25 reviews, 17 PRs, 51 comments in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Daman primarily focused on improving the project's documentation. Their contributions involved adding detailed explanations and examples for various SQL functions, including `soundex`, `current_catalog`, and `bing_tile_quadkey()`. Additionally, the user updated documentation references and examples.
big-datasql-querytrinojavapresto
apache/superset
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:33 reviews, 5 commits, 8 PRs in 29 days
Contributions summary:Daman focused on migrating existing React components from JSX to TypeScript (TSX) files. Their contributions primarily involved converting components like `HiddenControl`, `FormattedNumber`, `DragHandle`, `Fieldset`, and `EstimateQueryCostButton`. These changes included updating code to align with TypeScript typing and converting functional and class-based components. The user also made minor UI adjustments and code reformatting using prettier.
apache-supersetdata-explorationdata-visualizationsupersetapache
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