Damian Hamill
Chief Technology Officer at Ocean Wave Ventures
Brighton, England, Colombia
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Top SchoolDamian Hamill is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over three decades of software innovation and 12 years in senior roles, focused on web, mobile, CRM/CMS and ERP systems. He combines hands-on polyglot engineering—favoring Go/Fiber, Ruby on Rails and Node.js with SQL and NoSQL stores—with deep experience in Crystal, Perl, Java, C/C#, PHP and modern frontends like React and Flutter. As CTO of ZONO Ventures and technical architect at Ocean Wave Ventures, he has delivered resilient, clustered systems and cloud solutions for clients ranging from AT&T to AWS training programs. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core back-end functionality in notable projects such as the Amber Crystal web framework, demonstrating attention to edge cases and framework extensibility. Based between Brighton and maritime locales from the UK to Thailand, he blends pragmatic architecture with a penchant for building fast, maintainable systems for complex, distributed environments.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, Computer Science, Bsc, Computer Science at University of Westminster
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Github Skills (8)
web-framework10
recipe10
crystal-lang10
cli10
testing8
erb6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
amberframework/amber
Dec 2017 - Sep 2019
A Crystal web framework that makes building applications fast, simple, and enjoyable. Get started with quick prototyping, less bugs, and blazing fast performance.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 23 PRs, 133 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Damian primarily contributed to the Amber web framework's back-end functionality. Their work included handling edge cases in the router, adding functionality to the Date prototype, and implementing recipe support for generating applications and scaffolding. They also refactored and enhanced the framework's responder functionality to support Procs, enhancing flexibility. Additionally, they modified the recipe fetcher and fixed compatibility issues, showing maintenance of the framework.
blazingget-startedcrystalscaffoldingamber
damianham/jooxe
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:38 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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