Damien Quintal
Principal Software Engineer at Salesforce
Greater Sydney Area Australia
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Top SchoolDamien Quintal is a Principal Software Engineer based in Greater Sydney with 11 years of experience designing and delivering scalable web and microservice architectures at Salesforce. He has led major platform re-architectures—moving monoliths to microservices, building customer-facing APIs, CI platforms, and integrations (including Mulesoft and Slack prototypes)—and shepherded performance and testing improvements that raised JS unit coverage above 90%. A hands-on architect, Damien combines Node.js, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails and Java expertise with deep UI/UX sensibilities, having driven framework-level improvements on the Aura project and helped shape LWC. He balances technical leadership with product thinking, having co-founded startups and shipped customer-facing features that align engineering with operational and business needs. Outside work he’s a practicing photographer, home cook and avid board gamer, which fuels his pragmatic creativity and attention to craft.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology Web Technologies and Web Standards Network Technologies Database Development System Analysis, Bachelor of Information Technology Web Technologies and Web Standards Network Technologies Database Development System Analysis at Western Sydney University
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (15)
component-development10
javascript10
aura-framework10
testing10
memory-management9
datagrid8
connections6
foreign-keys6
associations6
cookie6
dom6
forms6
jquery6
cellular-network6
onclick6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
forcedotcom/aura
May 2017 - Jan 2019
This project is archived, please see the readme for additional resources.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:51 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Damien primarily contributed to the Aura framework, focusing on improving and maintaining various aspects of the codebase. Their work included adding support for testing SVGElementInstance, fixing memory leaks related to component destruction and property reference values, and preventing null pointer exceptions in testing frameworks. They also addressed issues related to component ownership, memory management, and the handling of event dispatchers. Additionally, the user contributed to the data grid structure.
additionalsalesforce-lightninglwcarchivedshadow-dom
damien-quintal/aura
Nov 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:11 pushes in 6 months
developingui-componentsjavascriptauralong
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