Damien Alleyne
Founder at Damien Alleyne Consulting Inc.
Saint Philip, Barbados
Summary
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Top SchoolDamien Alleyne is a founder and senior software engineer with eight years of professional experience building internationalized web platforms and developer-focused products from Barbados. He led internationalization and front-end work for WordPress.com at Automattic—contributing to the high-profile Calypso codebase and improving RTL and localized UX for a global audience of 50M+ users. As founder of Damien Alleyne Consulting, he combines product-building (Next.js/React/TypeScript) with consulting, shipping projects like a transparent remote jobs board and a fintech comparison site migrated from WordPress to Next.js. He has a strong background in automation, cloud-native architectures and search (ElasticSearch), and drove company-wide linter adoption to raise code quality across 200+ engineers. Damien’s blend of applied research (MPhil in Digital Communications), hands-on engineering, and technical writing gives him a knack for turning localization and automation challenges into measurable product improvements. He is open to senior backend or full-stack roles with distributed teams, especially in fintech, developer tools, and international products.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Electronics - Digital Communications, Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Electronics - Digital Communications at The University of the West Indies Cave Hill CampusCloud Native Application Architecture Nanodegree, Cloud Native Application Architecture Nanodegree at Udacity
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (13)
i18n-js10
javascript10
i18next10
localization10
react10
calypso10
s69
wordpress9
html8
jsx8
redux7
sass6
css6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:46 reviews, 15 commits, 102 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Damien primarily contributed to the front-end of the WordPress.com platform, focusing on localizing user interface elements and fixing unlocalized links. Their work involved modifying React components, particularly within the domain management and settings sections. They also addressed translation issues and ensured correct display in right-to-left (RTL) languages.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
d-alleyne/nl-select
Aug 2020 - May 2021
Testing the react-select component
Contributions:8 PRs, 14 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
reacttestingmulti-selectreact-selectautosuggest
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