Damien Hobday is a Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of experience building and operationalizing resilient trading and fintech infrastructure in New York. He has driven large-scale migrations and tooling rollouts—conserving $2M annually at JPMorgan by orchestrating configuration management adoption—and improved monitoring and recovery for high-frequency trading systems at Citadel. Now at Chainlink Labs, he applies methodical, process-oriented engineering to bridge blockchain reliability with market-grade ops practices. Damien pairs hands-on automation (from Flask web tools to Python and Node.js platforms) with clear stakeholder communication and a knack for reducing manual toil. Outside work he mentors youth in robotics, reflecting a long-standing commitment to teaching and practical engineering.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Macaulay Honors College at The City University of New York
Contributions:3 PRs, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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Damien Hobday - Site Reliability Engineer at Chainlink Labs