Summary
Damion Junk is a Technical Lead with 14 years of experience designing large-scale software architectures, data pipelines, and analytics systems, currently leading engineering at Relay Network. He brings deep functional programming expertise in Clojure and a track record of building full-stack research and healthcare informatics platforms at institutions like the San Diego Supercomputer Center and Purdue. Damion has repeatedly moved between hands‑on development and technical leadership—managing teams, defining architectures, and shipping data-driven workflows for scientific and medical use cases. His background includes founding and CTO roles at startups, giving him product-minded engineering instincts alongside academic exposure to complex networks and informatics. Based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, he blends pragmatic system design with a penchant for functional approaches that simplify concurrency and data processing. Colleagues rely on him to translate research requirements into maintainable, production-grade pipelines and reporting solutions.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
PhD (Not Complete) Informatics Complex Networks and Systems, PhD (Not Complete) Informatics Complex Networks and Systems at Indiana Unversity
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Purdue University