Damien Johnston
Cloud Development Consultant at Panza
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDamien Johnston is a Cloud Development Consultant and entrepreneur with a decade of hands-on experience building data-driven, cloud-native systems and AI-first architectures. He currently leads greenfield AI and cloud projects for the banking sector while running a trading automation product company he founded, blending algorithmic trading with scalable cloud infrastructure. His background spans database leadership, performance engineering, DevOps/MLOps, and serverless patterns from roles at BMTX, Siemens, and enterprise clients, giving him deep expertise tuning high-throughput, resilient data tiers. Damien is pragmatic about delivering low-risk change through trunk-based development, feature toggles, and automation that minimize downtime in 24/7 environments. He combines a builder’s mindset—aptly summarized on GitHub as “Builder of Things”—with a knack for applying AI agent frameworks, RAG, and Azure LLMs to practical business problems. Based in Philadelphia, he brings both startup grit and enterprise rigor to projects that demand measurable performance and cost efficiency.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Montgomery County Community College
Github Skills (9)
chat1
serverless1
azure-functions1
azure1
azure-storage1
signalr-service1
signalr1
cosmos1
azure-cosmos-db1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
newsqlguru/ict-index
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:61 commits, 68 pushes in 3 months
damien-johnston/open-data-project
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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