Damon Civin
Data Science Director, Cross-Meta Products
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolDamon Civin is a data science leader with 15 years of experience, currently directing Cross‑Meta Products from the Bay Area and focused on building a healthier internet. He blends deep mathematical rigor—holding a PhD in Mathematics from Cambridge where he proved stability results for charged rotating black holes—with hands‑on ML and software engineering leadership at Meta and Arm. At Arm he founded and scaled the applied ML team; earlier roles at Darktrace and open‑source contributions to prominent GitHub projects (including improvements to GitHub Desktop and quality testing for github/explore) show a practitioner comfortable across full‑stack development, testing, and production ML. Damon is as comfortable writing unit tests and UI refinements as he is designing anomaly detection and statistical experiments, bringing both research-level clarity and product-focused execution to complex, large‑scale systems.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mathematics at University of CambridgeUniversity of Pretoria
English, Afrikaans, French
Github Skills (27)
fuzzy-search10
javascript10
electron10
testing10
css10
typescript10
github-desktop10
ui-design10
ruby10
uid10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
collections10
typescripts10
react10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
github/opensource.guide
Jul 2018 - Oct 2020
📚 Community guides for open source creators
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 13 commits, 21 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Damon primarily focused on updating and refactoring the project's front-end components and styling. They updated Primer core and Primer marketing to version 7.0, likely improving the project's visual design and underlying framework. They also fixed styling issues related to card-based sections and replaced deprecated 'card' classes with the new 'Box' classes, ensuring compatibility with the latest Primer upgrade. Additionally, the user removed unnecessary spaces within the layout files.
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github/explore
Jan 2018 - Feb 2021
Community-curated topic and collection pages on GitHub
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:17 reviews, 120 commits, 88 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Damon's commits primarily focus on enhancing the quality and reliability of the project. They added comprehensive tests for collection validation, ensuring the integrity of the data. Furthermore, the user refactored test helper methods for reuse, streamlining the testing process and improving maintainability. Their contributions also include verifying item presence and enforcing valid image formats, indicating a strong focus on thorough testing and adherence to style guidelines.
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