Damien Radtke
Senior Software Engineer at DRW
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolDamien Radtke is a senior software engineer in Chicago with 16 years of experience building reliable systems across finance and payments, currently driving engineering work at DRW after a long tenure at Braintree. He brings polyglot fluency—from C#/Java and Python to Rust, Go, Clojure, and Apex—and deep comfort on Linux and Windows platforms, enabling him to tackle everything from low-level C/C++ work to web and cloud services. His background includes leadership stints as CTO and VP of Engineering at a startup, plus hands-on roles in case management and high-throughput trading systems, reflecting both product and operational sensibilities. Notable for being an open-source enthusiast with a taste for diverse languages (including Haskell and Common Lisp), he combines curiosity-driven exploration with pragmatic delivery in production environments.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Mathematics and Computer Science at DePaul University
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Github Skills (200)
allegro10
vim10
logrus10
programming-language10
language-server-protocol10
clojure-repl10
compiler10
pluggable10
eclipse10
packer10
rust10
zap10
workload10
cookie10
logger10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
dradtke/slack-emoji-downloader
Jun 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
dradtke/go-allegro
May 2013 - May 2020
Go bindings for Allegro 5.
Contributions:92 commits, 4 PRs, 37 pushes in 7 years 1 month
golanggoallegro
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