Damián Vicino
Senior Open Source Specialist - OSPO at Datadog
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDamián Vicino is a Senior Open Source Specialist and technical lead with 11+ years building high-throughput distributed systems, real-time media platforms, SDKs, and cloud services. He led the AWS SDK for C++ team—authoring features like SSOCredentialProvider, IPv6 parsing, and checksum improvements—and drove CI/CD, build and distribution redesigns to ensure consistent ABI-safe deployments across Amazon. His background blends academic rigor (PhD in Computer Science) with hands-on production experience in machine learning-backed supply chain optimization and sub-second dev-test cycles for streaming systems. Currently at Datadog and teaching Advanced C++ as an adjunct professor, he bridges open-source stewardship, developer productivity, and production operations. Notably, he has moved between low-level C/C++ systems work and higher-level cloud architecture, making him fluent across languages and layers of the stack.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Carleton UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Université Côte d'AzurBachelor's degree Film/Cinema/Video Studies, Bachelor's degree Film/Cinema/Video Studies at IUNALicentiate degree Computer Science, Licentiate degree Computer Science at University of Buenos Aires
English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (17)
c-language10
aws-sdk10
cprogramming-language10
http9
api8
apim8
api-design8
gzip7
html6
database6
php6
git-svn6
sum6
python6
git-submodules6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-sdk-cpp
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
AWS SDK for C++
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:138 reviews, 181 commits, 118 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Damián primarily contributed to the AWS SDK for C++ by implementing new features and making improvements to existing components. Their work involved updating the user-agent string for consistency across SDKs. They added an implementation for SSOCredentialProvider and incorporated it into the default credential provider chain. Additionally, the user added support for retrieving credentials from SSO in the HTTP client and added support to parse IPv6 addresses. Furthermore, the user added checksum improvements to request building.
cppsdkaws-sdkcross-platformaws
sdavtaker/cadmium
Sep 2016 - Oct 2023
A strongly typed PDEVS simulator
Contributions:150 pushes, 67 branches in 7 years 1 month
starcraftdiscrete-eventdefoldtemplate-metaprogrammingsimulation
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