Damien Schoof
Senior Software Engineer at Talos
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDamien Schoof is a senior software engineer with 15 years of experience building robust, production-grade systems across finance, payments, and healthcare domains. He blends deep interests in compilers, algorithms, AI research, and graphics programming with hands-on delivery at companies like Talos, Broadway/ION, and LogiSense, where he led re-architectures for secure, cost-saving payment microservices. A pragmatic polyglot, Damien has recently been exploring Rust for research-grade systems work while continuing to support .NET stacks in trading and FX applications. He also runs a consulting company (DRS Solutions) and draws on early experience in accessibility-focused care work to inform patient, collaborative engineering and clear communication. Colleagues rely on him for complex problem solving that spans low-level performance concerns to scalable distributed design.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
John Calvin Christian CollegeBSci, Computer Science, BSci, Computer Science at Curtin University
English
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Github Skills (76)
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rust10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
am0d/rusty-razor
Dec 2013 - Feb 2018
Contributions:55 commits, 10 pushes in 4 years 2 months
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