Damon Kaswell
Product Owner at HP
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolDamon Kaswell is a product-focused engineer and Product Owner based in Eugene, Oregon, with over 25 years of technical experience and 11 years in software-focused roles. At HP he leads the developer portal (hp.io), guiding architecture and product decisions while remaining hands-on as a senior developer across Node.js/TypeScript, Flutter, and Java/Groovy. He has led Backstage-based developer platform work and contributed backend ingestion features to the popular open-source Backstage project, demonstrating both platform vision and implementation depth. Damon’s career spans rapid prototyping, multi-language integrations, and developer evangelism—building demos, mobile apps, browser extensions, and API clients to showcase complex technologies. Comfortable managing hackathons and cross-functional stakeholders, he blends operational support experience from Symantec with modern cloud-native and serverless practices. He’s known for turning experimental proofs-of-concept into reusable developer tooling that accelerates internal adoption.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Lane Community College
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
database-migrations10
back-end-development10
typescript10
backstage10
typescript-types10
database-migration10
typescripts10
postgresql9
knexjs9
microservices8
microservices-application8
html6
angular-material6
angular6
api6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:84 reviews, 89 commits, 7 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Damon's commits primarily focused on developing the incremental ingestion backend for the Backstage platform. They implemented features related to managing and synchronizing data ingestion processes. This included the creation of database migrations, backend services, and routes to manage the ingestion lifecycle. The contributions involve designing and implementing the backend infrastructure for incremental entity providers.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
GoodDamon/customserver
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:36 commits, 1 PR, 32 pushes in 3 months
web-servercustomizednode-jsjavascriptcommented
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