Damien Zammit
Clinical Bioinformatician
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDamien Zammit is a Clinical Bioinformatician and seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience combining mathematical rigor and open-source development to build clinical automation and genomic analysis tools in a hospital setting. He brings deep systems and low-level expertise—from coreboot firmware and reverse-engineering contributions to audio DSP and plugin framework UI work—alongside Python, C/C++, R and SQL proficiency. A long-time advocate for Free/Libre software, he designs user-empowering, auditable solutions and maintains projects in GNU/Linux ecosystems while founding an audio/DSP studio, ZamAudio. His work uniquely bridges clinical genomics, embedded systems, and professional audio, applying a decade of formal mathematics to practical, real-world problems.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
7th, Pianoforte Musicianship (Hons), 7th, Pianoforte Musicianship (Hons) at Australian Music Education BoardDiploma, Audio Engineering, Distinction, Diploma, Audio Engineering, Distinction at JMC AcademyThe University of MelbourneAccelerated Program Learner, 97.10, Accelerated Program Learner, 97.10 at The University High School
Github Skills (32)
assembly10
c-language10
back-end-development10
firmware10
bios10
audio-processing10
c1110
ui-design10
makefile10
c1710
uid10
front-end-development10
sys10
boot10
embedded10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
coreboot/coreboot
Jul 2013 - Mar 2022
Read-only mirror of https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot.git. We don't handle Pull Requests.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:112 commits in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Damien primarily worked on coreboot firmware for AMD and Intel platforms, including significant contributions to the memory initialization and platform-specific code. They refactored and ported existing code, addressing compiler warnings, and enhancing the functionality of coreboot on specific hardware. Their work involved low-level programming, hardware configuration, and board bring-up activities, focusing on enabling functionality on specific hardware platforms. Furthermore, they developed tools such as `blobtool` for managing firmware data.
corebootfirmwarereviewpull-requestsbootloader
DISTRHO/DPF
May 2016 - Dec 2020
DISTRHO Plugin Framework
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 18 PRs, 64 comments in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Damien contributed to the DISTRHO Plugin Framework by adding and modifying user interface elements for audio plugins. They added functionality to control scroll step on knobs and shift-click to reset sliders within the UI. Furthermore, they fixed a bug in the LV2 export process and made improvements to the build system and included math library support. These changes indicate a focus on both the functionality and user experience of the plugin framework.
plugin-frameworkphpplugin
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