Damien Whitten
Application Developer
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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SeniorDamien Whitten is an application developer and technology leader with 13 years of experience designing event-driven, scalable financial processing systems and APIs. He has repeatedly built systems from the ground up—most notably leading the architecture for a clearing firm acquired by FTX—and thrives in fast-paced, startup-like environments where pragmatic risk-taking accelerates delivery. Comfortable spanning full-stack development, API design, and CTO-level strategy, Damien focuses on replacing legacy batch processes with real-time, efficient pipelines that partner closely with business users. He is obsessed with simplicity and often finds low-code or design-led shortcuts that produce massively scalable outcomes with less maintenance. Based in Melbourne, he combines a lifelong fascination with creating new digital realities with a track record of shipping production-critical infrastructure across fintech, health, and SaaS domains.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (138)
quickfix10
parser10
switcher10
aws-sam10
aws-cloudformation10
cinnamon10
aws10
application-launcher9
validation9
golang9
fixprotocol9
dmenu9
financial-data9
edgar9
aws-sdk9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
daemonl/log.go
Sep 2020 - Jul 2023
Contributions:1 review, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
pentops/protostate
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Generic State Machine Manager
Contributions:1 review, 204 PRs, 209 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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