Damien Riegel
Directeur Des Opérations
Montreal, Quebec, France
Summary
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Top SchoolDamien Riegel is an operations and supply chain leader with 11 years of senior experience, currently serving as Directeur des opérations for Champagne houses Piper‑Heidsieck & Charles Heidsieck in Montreal. Trained as a mechanical engineer (M.Eng.), he progressed from project engineering through regional supply chain leadership at Kohler to strategic operations and end-to-end supply chain oversight in the luxury goods sector. He blends technical rigor with commercial sensitivity—optimizing processes for complex, high-value products across EMEA and global markets. Pragmatic and hands-on, Damien has also contributed code improvements to the well-regarded neomutt open-source email client, showing an uncommon mix of operational leadership and practical software development. Known for simplifying legacy processes and introducing measurable efficiencies, he thrives at the intersection of engineering, logistics, and product stewardship.
10 years of coding experience
DUT, Genie mecanique, DUT, Genie mecanique at Université de Reims Champagne-ArdenneMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.), Ingénierie mécanique, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Ingénierie mécanique at ITII Champagne Ardennes
Github Skills (15)
c1710
e-mail10
mailing10
mime10
c-programming10
c1110
sendmail10
send-email10
cli10
imap9
smtps9
smtp9
maildir9
smtpd9
pop38
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
neomutt/neomutt
Nov 2016 - Nov 2017
✉️ Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks -- IRC: #neomutt on irc.libera.chat
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 commits, 10 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Damien primarily contributed to the core functionality of the neomutt email client. They added a feature to rename attachments, enhancing user control over message composition. Furthermore, the user introduced a new placeholder, %F, to display attachment names as seen by the recipient. The user also refactored and improved the codebase, including optimizations for finding configuration files and removing obsolete checks.
notmuchpop3ncursesirc-serverimap
netdsa/dsatest
Jul 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:140 commits, 13 PRs, 34 pushes in 8 months
testing-frameworktestinglinuxswitchinghardware
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