Damian Brady
Staff Developer Advocate
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolDamian Brady is a Staff Developer Advocate at GitHub with over two decades of hands-on software development and advocacy experience, currently based in Brisbane but active globally online. Formerly a Cloud DevOps Advocate at Microsoft and a Solution Architect at Octopus Deploy, he blends deep .NET and cloud expertise with a knack for translating complex DevOps and MLOps practices into practical guidance for developers, IT pros, and data scientists. He co-founded and has run the community-driven DDD Brisbane conference since 2011, demonstrating long-term commitment to developer communities and grassroots event organization. Damian contributes to open-source projects—working across back-end and front-end areas such as the Tailwind Traders website and ML model endpoints—and pairs technical contributions with public speaking and community leadership. His background spans product, consulting, and management roles, and he often leverages real production integration experience (e.g., Azure Blob storage for image workflows) when advising teams.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Business Administration (IT), Masters Business Administration (IT) at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Bachelor Information Technology (hons), Bachelor Information Technology (hons) at The University of Queensland
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Github Skills (21)
net10
dotnet10
asp-net10
azure-blob-storage10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
javascript9
apidoc9
imagesharp9
browser9
visual-studio9
dom-events9
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http8
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/TailwindTraders-Website
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Tailwind Traders Website
Role in this project:
Back-end & Full-stack Developer
Back-end & Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 1 push in 3 days
Contributions summary:Damian primarily contributed to the back-end and front-end development of the Tailwind Traders Website. Their commits focused on implementing an HTTP endpoint predictor for machine learning models, including the necessary integration with Azure Blob storage for image uploads. They also updated the project's dependencies and made changes to the front-end upload file component to handle image processing errors. Moreover, the user updated code related to image search.
tailwindtailwindcsstraders
DamovisaInc/dotnetweb
Nov 2021 - Jul 2022
.NET Web Application with Razor Pages
Contributions:49 commits, 16 PRs, 45 pushes in 8 months
razordotnetrazor-pagesweb-applicationcsharp
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