Damien Allison
Founder at Baack
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDamien Allison is a seasoned technical leader and founder with 14+ years building highly available, real-time and transactional systems for startups and blue‑chip companies alike. He combines executive-level product strategy with hands-on systems architecture and Java development, having played senior technical roles at Meta and Google and delivered contract CTO work powering products with multi‑million pound revenue. Damien has a proven track record recruiting and managing mixed in‑house and outsourced teams to hit aggressive launch and uptime targets, and he’s comfortable translating business requirements into scalable technical roadmaps. An active open‑source contributor, he has improved efficiency in high‑visibility projects such as the AMP Toolbox optimizer. Based in London, he pairs developer coaching and TDD discipline with pragmatic cloud cost/performance tuning across Google, AWS and Rackspace environments.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MSc., System Design for Internet Applications, MSc., System Design for Internet Applications at Newcastle UniversityMSc. System Design for Internet Applications; BSc. Computing Science, internet technology, MSc. System Design for Internet Applications; BSc. Computing Science, internet technology at Newcastle University 2005
English
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Github Skills (15)
code-optimization10
javascript10
google-amp10
ampl10
nodejs9
unit-testing9
vue-resource6
html6
google-ads-api6
vue6
jquery6
android6
vuejs26
firebase-mlkit6
google-analytics6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ampproject/amp-toolbox
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
A collection of AMP tools making it easier to publish and host AMP pages.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Damien primarily worked on optimizing and refactoring code within the `amp-toolbox` repository. Their contributions included refactoring the PruneDuplicatePreloads transformer to improve efficiency, enhance its functionality, and remove specific types of redundant links. The user also fixed logic flaws and cleaned up lint warnings. This involved modifying JavaScript files and spec files related to the AMP optimizer tool.
publishhostamp-toolboxampamp-html
dakkad/buck
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:90 commits, 62 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
androidbuild-systemreusable-modulescreationjava
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