Summary
Damien Chomat is a pragmatic Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building platform and backend systems that accelerate time-to-market for engineering teams. His career spans mobile, high-scale Java/Kotlin backends, and Kubernetes-native platform engineering on AWS GovCloud, where he architects isolated, on-demand environments for DoD cybersecurity training. He excels at creating frameworks, tooling, and Terraform providers that turn repetitive work into repeatable product—e.g., a stream-processing framework that cut adapter delivery from weeks to days and a Kafka Terraform provider used to automate provisioning. An active open-source contributor (KubeVirt, Kyverno, Spring Cloud AWS) and maintainer of Nidhogg, Damien favors deep understanding, conscious trade-offs, and outcomes over output. Bilingual Franco-American and based between the US and Europe, he blends cross-cultural collaboration with hands-on delivery.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at Eseo
Baccalauréat STI Electronique, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Baccalauréat STI Electronique, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Lycée Le Likès - Quimper
BTS Systèmes Électroniques, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BTS Systèmes Électroniques, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Ecole La Croix Rouge - Brest
CPGE ATS, Mechanical and Electronics Engineering, CPGE ATS, Mechanical and Electronics Engineering at Lycée Marcel Callo - Redon
French, English, German, Spanish