Damian Heard
Senior Software Engineer at Uptick
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDamian Heard is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of commercial experience building full-stack web applications, primarily in TypeScript and Python, based in Melbourne. He has led teams and mentored engineers across consultancy and product roles—driving migrations of legacy banking platforms, adopting TypeScript at scale, and shaping delivery practices alongside CTOs. Damian combines strong front-end (React) and back-end skills with a rigorous mathematical background (PhD-level work in hyperbolic geometry), which he applies to complex optimisation and data-heavy domains like rail and finance. He is an active contributor to open-source tooling for web request parsing (notably improving marshmallow/webargs), evidencing a focus on code quality and maintainability. Pragmatic and hands-on, he prefers working closely with teams on the tools and processes that make reliable software delivery repeatable.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
VCE, VCE at Kyabram Secondary CollegeThe University of Melbourne
Github Skills (9)
pyramid10
marshmallow10
python10
flask8
flask-ask8
validations7
validation7
pytest7
aiohttp7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
marshmallow-code/webargs
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
A friendly library for parsing HTTP request arguments, with built-in support for popular web frameworks, including Flask, Django, Bottle, Tornado, Pyramid, webapp2, Falcon, and aiohttp.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 6 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Damian primarily contributed to the `webargs` library by enhancing its functionality and addressing existing issues. They implemented support for callable arguments in the `use_args` decorator, enabling more flexible schema integration within web frameworks like Pyramid. The user also fixed a syntax error and corrected variable names, while also resolving a test failure related to marshmallow changes, demonstrating their focus on code quality and maintainability.
redocpythonrequest-validationbottlepydjango
uptick/pybusinesscentral
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
Python API for Business Central
Contributions:2 releases, 11 commits, 2 PRs in 2 months
apibusiness-centralpython
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