Damian Karzon is a Senior Software Engineer based in Queensland, Australia with 16 years of experience building scalable web and mobile platforms and leading engineering teams. He combines hands-on backend expertise in .NET, Python and cloud-native stacks with practical leadership—having led technology teams at Pinch, Toddle, WORK180 and others to deliver integrations, BI strategies and reliable release pipelines. Damian is an active open-source contributor, notably improving XML deserialization and performance in the widely used RestSharp client and enhancing site generation and Cordova in-app purchase tooling. He has a strong track record in cross-platform mobile (Xamarin), e-commerce and high-traffic web systems, plus a knack for improving developer workflows through CI/CD and automation. Colleagues value his focus on clarity, scalable architecture and building teams that ship consistently.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
IT, Web Development, IT, Web Development at Queensland University of Technology
A site generation tool (and then some) for .NET platforms
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 6 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Damian focused on enhancing the site generation tool's core functionalities. Key contributions included improving permalink support, implementing checks for directories, and adding support for 404 pages. The user also refined how page URLs are handled, ensuring different title extraction for pages and posts and integrating folder and include/exclude configurations. Furthermore, the user implemented features related to category support and improved rendering blocks, which indicates focus on improving and extending the tool's template and layout generation logic.
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Damian contributed to the RestSharp library by implementing and refining the XML deserialization functionality. They added support for deserializing XML attributes, including handling lists and nested properties. Additionally, the user fixed bugs and made performance improvements in the XML deserialization process, specifically addressing issues related to element ordering and namespace handling. Furthermore, the user added the ability to set the range header.
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Damian Karzon - Senior Software Engineer at Pinch Payments