Damien Berthereau
Engineering Lead at BAA Consulting
Greater Grenoble Metropolitan Area France
Summary
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Top SchoolDamien Berthereau is an engineering lead with 13 years of hands-on experience building backend systems, performance tooling and operational practices for video and web-publishing platforms. Currently at BAA Consulting he combines technical leadership, process design and internal tooling to reduce technical debt and raise delivery quality across client teams. His background at ATEME centers on performance measurement tooling (JMeter/Ubik) and end-to-end interoperability testing for complex video processing stacks, while earlier roles delivered low-level C/C++ and Python systems for monitoring and network-discovery products. Damien is also an active backend contributor to the Omeka open-source ecosystem, improving search, IIIF image handling and full-text indexing for cultural heritage publishing. Based in Grenoble, he pairs a methodical, metrics-driven engineering style with mentorship and Agile practice adoption, and recharges by cycling, climbing and skiing in the Alps. That mix of deep systems experience, open-source contributions and real-world performance testing gives him a rare blend of operational rigor and product-focused engineering.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Validation du cursus d’ingénierie informatique (Titre RNCP Niveau 1) Computer Science, Validation du cursus d’ingénierie informatique (Titre RNCP Niveau 1) Computer Science at EPSI Montpellier
English, French
Github Skills (18)
cms10
web-application10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
mysql10
zend-framework10
linked-data10
php10
api10
webapp10
database-design10
web-development10
backend10
file-management9
algorithm9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
omeka/omeka-s
Jan 2017 - Nov 2022
Omeka S is a web publication system for universities, galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. It consists of a local network of independently curated exhibits sharing a collaboratively built pool of items, media, and their metadata.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 231 commits, 267 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Damien primarily contributed to the backend of the Omeka S web publication system. Their commits involved fixing bugs related to IIIF image rendering and ingesting, as well as refactoring code within the API, including Site and Media adapters. They also implemented new features by extending existing API functionality, such as site slug handling and adding a site page visibility feature.
cmslinked-dataconsistsomekaphp
omeka/Omeka
May 2013 - Jul 2018
A flexible web publishing platform for the display of library, museum and scholarly collections, archives and exhibitions.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:54 commits, 19 PRs, 50 comments in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Damien primarily focused on enhancing the Omeka web publishing platform's back-end functionalities. Their contributions include normalizing functions for derivative filename generation, implementing filters for advanced search queries, and adding options to filter by multiple collections and item types. They also addressed style guidelines and improved the full-text indexing process.
publishingopen-accessexhibitionspublishing-platformscholarly
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