Damien Milon
Engineering Manager at pennylane-hq
Summary
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RockstarDamien Milon is an engineering manager based in France with 8 years of hands-on experience blending full-stack development and DevOps practices. He has a practical history of improving developer onboarding and reproducible environments, contributing to Le Wagon's widely used bootcamp tooling—work that ranges from Rails templates and front-end integrations to build scripts and dotfiles automation. Damien excels at bridging developer experience and operational reliability, routinely refactoring build processes, managing configuration scripts, and streamlining editor and shell setups across macOS and WSL. As a manager he pairs technical ownership with mentorship, favoring pragmatic improvements that reduce friction for teams and students alike. An understated strength is his focus on maintainability: removing unused artifacts, resolving conflicts, and restoring critical components to keep evolving infra aligned with dependencies.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (33)
bootstrap10
scripting10
configuration-management10
bash10
rails10
dotfile10
setupapi10
ruby10
script10
vscode10
sh10
bootstra10
shell10
zsh10
ruby-on-rails10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
lewagon/rails-templates
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
Jump start your Rails development with Le Wagon best practices
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 71 commits, 20 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Damien primarily contributed to the project by modifying template files and installing dependencies related to a Rails application. Their work involved updating the application's stylesheets, incorporating navigation components, and adding various JavaScript libraries, including Bootstrap and stimulus. They also made changes to the application's environment, modifying the application's file structure.
ruby-on-railsjumphamlwagontemplate
lewagon/dotfiles
Jun 2020 - Aug 2022
Default configuration for Le Wagon's students
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 76 commits, 21 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Damien primarily focused on configuring and maintaining the dotfiles repository, which includes system configuration scripts and settings. Their commits demonstrate modifications to the `install.sh` script, focusing on VS Code setup, zsh plugin installation, and SSH key management. These changes involved symlinking configurations, managing editor settings, and adapting the setup for different operating systems (macOS and WSL).
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