Damien O'hara
Technical Director at Mill Point Labs
Perth, Western Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDamien O'hara is a Technical Director and multidisciplinary software engineer with a decade of experience building and leading small, high-performing teams to create and commercialise SaaS products. He co-founded a startup that exited and now runs Mill Point Labs, providing hands-on code, product strategy and engineering leadership to select clients. His background spans full-stack development, cloud, firmware and algorithm design—his dynamic resistance algorithms were pivotal to a successful $21.8M Series A at Vitruvian. Based in Perth, he combines deep technical craft (coding since age 10) with community building, organising regular meetups and running an online developer community of 30k+ members. Known for turning early-stage ideas into investible products, he blends startup grit with disciplined engineering and a knack for developer culture.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Finance and Computer Science, Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Finance and Computer Science at The University of Western Australia
Github Skills (77)
file-tree10
sql-generation10
kotlin-script9
literate-programming9
to-yaml9
kotlin9
kotlin-dsl9
kotlin-jvm9
githubaction-workflow8
browser8
javascript8
markdown8
kotlin-library8
react8
pdf8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mfwgenerics/koala
Aug 2021 - Feb 2023
SQL generation for Kotlin
Contributions:12 releases, 242 commits, 61 PRs in 1 year 6 months
kotlinsql-generation
mfwgenerics/markout
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Kotlin DSL for Markdown and file trees
Contributions:8 releases, 83 commits, 36 PRs in 1 month
file-treekotlin-dslmarkdowndocumentation-toolkotlin-jvm
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