Damien Regad
Responsable Portefeuille Clients at Ville de Genève
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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RockstarDamien Regad is an experienced IT manager and client portfolio lead based in Geneva with 18 years in technology and over 12 years designing, delivering and operating complex international applications. He combines hands-on back-end and database engineering skills—demonstrated by PHP and SQL contributions to well-known open-source projects like DokuWiki, ADOdb and MantisBT—with senior service delivery and Siebel expertise from long tenures at Merck Serono and the City of Geneva. Known for leading multicultural teams and managing offshore support models, he focuses on reliable service delivery and strong customer satisfaction. Bilingual in French and English with working German, he bridges technical depth and stakeholder-facing responsibilities. Less obvious: he actively keeps legacy systems modern and compatible (e.g., PHP8 updates), showing a practical commitment to long-term platform stability.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
French, English, German
Github Skills (15)
debug10
php10
mysqli10
database-driver10
api10
bt10
mantis10
dokuwiki10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
database-design10
mysql10
sql10
database-optimization9
wiki-engine9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
ADOdb/ADOdb
Mar 2008 - Jan 2023
ADOdb is a PHP database class library that provides powerful abstractions for performing queries and managing databases. ADOdb also hides the differences between DB engines so you can easily switch them without changing your code.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:34 releases, 89 reviews, 963 commits in 15 years
Contributions summary:Damien appears to be primarily focused on back-end development within the ADOdb library. The commits involve fixing bugs, adding functionality to the database driver and improving SQL query support. The user interacted with the database directly, working with the database's specifics, as well as with database features. This suggests involvement in both back-end and database engineering tasks within the project.
sqlserverclass-libraryormswitchhides
mantisbt/mantisbt
Oct 2010 - Jan 2023
Mantis Bug Tracker (MantisBT)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 352 reviews, 3425 commits in 12 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Damien contributed to the back-end logic and database aspects of the Mantis Bug Tracker project, primarily by making changes to the code involving improvements and adjustments to database queries, custom field handling, and the versioning system. Their work included refactoring SQL queries and updating the system to handle different parameter types, and addressing multiple issues related to database interactions, and the user's work has been focused on enhancing the code's reliability and compatibility. The user also made improvements to the REST API.
mantistrackerphpbug-trackerbugtracker
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