Damien Byrne
Software Engineering Manager at Fat Zebra
Perth, Western Australia
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Top SchoolDamien Byrne is a pragmatic software engineering manager with over a decade of experience leading teams and delivering full‑lifecycle web and backend systems, most recently managing engineering for Pin Payments and Fat Zebra while actively coding in Ruby on Rails. He blends hands‑on development with architecture and client-facing product discovery, having moved between senior engineer and manager roles through acquisitions at Checkout.com. Comfortable across languages and frameworks, Damien emphasizes durable, flexible solutions and light‑weight Agile practices that improve team communication and delivery. His background includes building in‑house test tooling, cloud financial platforms, and embedded simulation models, reflecting a rare mix of transactional fintech, enterprise integration, and low‑level systems experience. Based in Perth, he’s noted for turning complex requirements into maintainable codebases and for scaling distributed teams across time zones.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Cert IV in Customer Service – IT, Cert IV in Customer Service – IT at TAFE SABachelor of Information Technology Minor in Applied Finance, Bachelor of Information Technology Minor in Applied Finance at University of South AustraliaCert IV in Computer Maintenance, Cert IV in Computer Maintenance at Computer Power Training Institute
English, French
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Github Skills (86)
payment-gateway10
abstraction10
ruby10
merchant10
payment-integration10
payment10
spree10
shopify10
adyen10
square10
ecommerce10
payment-processing10
laravel7
infrastructure7
python7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
damienjbyrne/sample_app
Jun 2018 - Dec 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 5 PRs, 2 pushes in 6 years 7 months
damienjbyrne/karaokise
Mar 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
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