Damien Demessence
Director Of Technology at 4th Whale Marketing
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolDamien Demessence is a delivery-focused Director of Technology based in Montreal with 11 years of experience building and migrating web platforms and AWS infrastructures. He blends hands-on development in PHP/Symfony and legacy migrations with cloud operations—designing, optimizing and monitoring AWS stacks (EC2, RDS, CloudFront, Elasticache) and automating zero-downtime deployments. Damien has a strong track record of modernizing legacy systems (including large PHP-to-Symfony migrations), reducing technical debt, and coaching teams in best practices within Agile environments. He prioritizes developer productivity, providing tools and processes that free teams to be creative while keeping systems reliable. His background spans SQL/PLSQL, Java, and multiple frameworks, and he pairs technical depth with product-minded delivery. Outside day-to-day operations he leans toward pragmatic, reusable designs that speed delivery under tight timelines.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Management and marketing of Information Technology, Certificate, Management and marketing of Information Technology at Dominican University of CaliforniaMaster of Science (MS), Information Technologies, Master of Science (MS), Information Technologies at SUPINFO - The International Institute of Information TechnologyBachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology, Success, Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology, Success at UVSQ Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
php8
bundle8
sonata8
admin8
symfony7
admin-generator7
google-tag-manager6
fallback6
forms6
sonata-admin6
symfony-bundle6
cors6
fosuserbundle6
silex3
service-provider3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ExSituMarketing/EXS-ErrorBundle
Sep 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 27 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 9 months
bundlephpsymfony-bundleloggingerror-logging
ExSituMarketing/EXS-silex-geoip-provider
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:1 release, 12 commits, 11 pushes in 1 month
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