Damien Vitrac
Project Manager Lead Frontend Developer at Travel Tech Factory
Tosse, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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Top SchoolDamien Vitrac is a Lead Frontend Developer and Project Manager with over 13 years of experience delivering responsive, user-focused web applications and digital products from startup to enterprise scale. He combines hands-on React/JavaScript expertise—evidenced by notable contributions to spring.io projects like Spring Initializr—with product leadership, having built an AI-powered travel matching platform at Travel Tech Factory. Comfortable leading cross-functional teams, Damien has a track record of improving UX, performance and accessibility while driving scalable frontend architectures and agile delivery. His background spans founding a web studio, leading engineering teams in Java/Spring ecosystems, and contributing design-minded front-end work to widely used open source sites. Known for bridging UX and engineering, he often surfaces small interaction details (copy buttons, dark theme, responsive dropdown fixes) that materially improve developer and end-user experiences. Based in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, he brings a pragmatic blend of entrepreneurial curiosity and enterprise-grade execution.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
IUP, ISI, IUP, ISI at Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III
French, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
css10
user-interface10
ui-design10
interface-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
html10
react10
webpack9
responsive-design9
sass9
webpacker9
jquery8
bootstrap7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
spring-attic/sagan
Mar 2018 - Nov 2022
The spring.io site and reference application
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 188 commits, 31 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Damien primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Spring.io website. Their work involved implementing new UI elements, enhancing the user interface through animations and mobile adaptations, and fixing navigation issues on the project pages. Additionally, they made updates to the code block styles, added copy buttons, and improved the overall visual design of the site, including the addition of a dark theme.
spring-bootreference-applicationspringjavaspring-io
spring-io/start.spring.io
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
https://start.spring.io
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 121 commits, 72 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Damien primarily focused on developing the front-end user interface for the `start.spring.io` project. Their work included adding a JavaScript client application, implementing new components like a search function and a help menu, and improving the UI. They also addressed responsiveness by making changes to the layout and fixing dropdown issues within the application. The user demonstrated knowledge of React and Javascript while also utilizing technologies like webpack.
spring-bootspring-dataspringjavaspring-io
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