Damien Buttler
Lead Developer at OpusV Tech Group
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDamien Buttler is a Lead Developer based in Melbourne with over two decades of hands-on software engineering experience and a 12-year focused track record building scalable, secure microservices in Go and modern PHP frameworks. He excels at translating business requirements into well-documented tasks, designing robust APIs and cloud infrastructure (notably AWS), and delivering thoroughly tested, maintainable code. His career spans product and services environments, startups and agency work, where he has repeatedly owned backend architecture, CI/CD and developer provisioning using tools like Ansible and Vagrant. Comfortable across Go, PHP (Laravel, Yii), JavaScript and Python, Damien pairs deep backend expertise with strong DevOps instincts—an asset when shipping reliable systems under traffic and change. He’s passionate about the web and open source, and often builds the developer environments and automation that make teams more productive.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer systems, Computer systems at RMIT University
Github Skills (53)
php9
act8
chinese-simplified8
php-framework8
yii8
jstree7
python7
federated6
ada6
backbonejs6
ssl-certificate6
cookbook6
injection6
ssl6
encrypt6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
doublehops/go-migration
Nov 2021 - Aug 2024
A Go library to run SQL migration statements
Contributions:8 PRs, 9 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 9 months
golangsql-migrationmysqlgo-librarysql
doublehops/cryptowidget
Sep 2021 - Feb 2024
Contributions:6 PRs, 11 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 5 months
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