Damon Alfaro
Field Service Engineer at Automated Conveyor Systems
Greater Houston United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDamon Alfaro is a software engineer and field service professional with 8 years of engineering experience who blends a mechanical engineering background and Marine Corps linguistics training into pragmatic, data-driven software solutions. He specializes in JavaScript stacks—React, Node, Express—with production experience building GraphQL caching for Deno that leverages Redis and LFU/LRU algorithms to accelerate server-side rendering. Damon has built full-stack projects for inventory and legal research workflows, designed robust relational schemas and state containers to minimize complexity, and practices TDD on open-source tooling. His history as a patent examiner and process engineer informs a disciplined approach to specifications, data integrity, and algorithmic optimization. Active in open source, he contributed an alias-aware caching enhancement to a native Deno GraphQL module, demonstrating backend depth beyond typical front-end profiles. Based in Greater Houston, he brings cross-domain systems thinking and a knack for turning complex data flows into maintainable, high-performance services.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Automotive Engineering Technology/Technician, Associate's degree, Automotive Engineering Technology/Technician at New Mexico State University-Dona AnaBachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering at New Mexico State University
Github Skills (9)
graphql10
deno10
typescript10
typescripts10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
typescript-types10
javascript9
caching9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
open-source-labs/obsidian
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
GraphQL, built for Deno - a native GraphQL caching client and server module
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Damon implemented an alias feature for server-side caching within the GraphQL system. This involved modifications to the destructuring logic to correctly parse and utilize query aliases. Additionally, changes were made to the cache class to leverage these aliases, improving the efficiency of data retrieval. The user's commits also included updates to test files to validate the new alias functionality.
javascriptcachingdenographqltypescript
djdalfaro/ScratchProject
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 18 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.