Damien Robertson
Senior Data Developer
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDamien Robertson is a Senior Data Developer in Ottawa with 12 years of experience turning scientific curiosity into production-grade data systems. A former astronomer-turned-engineer, he blends rigorous research instincts with practical SRE discipline—owning pager rotations, incident management, and high-throughput analytics pipelines at Shopify. He designs and ships resilient streaming and batch ETL systems using Scala, Go, Python, Kubernetes and SQL, and has driven analytics products for merchants, finance, and logistics. Comfortable leading projects end-to-end, he pairs project management and cross-team collaboration with hands-on coding and data modelling. Outside of industry work he has a strong academic track record in astrophysics and published research using machine learning and custom analysis pipelines—an uncommon background that informs his data-driven problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Honours, Astrophysics, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Honours, Astrophysics, Summa Cum Laude at Saint Mary's UniversityAlgonquin CollegeMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Physics and Astronomy, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Physics and Astronomy at McMaster University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
correlation10
cross-correlation10
dtw10
smoothing9
command-line-tool8
python7
parser7
time-series7
lucene6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
astronomerdamo/AdventOfCode
Dec 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:11 PRs, 64 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year
astronomerdamo/pyreject
Jul 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 5 pushes in 7 months
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