Damon Oehlman
Technical Consultant at Defrag Australia
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolDamon Oehlman is a Technical Consultant and seasoned software engineer with 16 years building scalable web and real-time applications from the Gold Coast, Australia. He combines deep JavaScript, TypeScript and WebRTC expertise with hands-on experience in both frontend libraries and native Node.js addons, contributing to notable open-source projects like detect-browser and node-webrtc. Damon has a proven track record advising and leading engineering teams across startups and enterprises (Canva, Hopin, Boardcave) to adopt pragmatic web technologies and improve developer workflows. Known for developer training and stakeholder-facing communication, he excels at translating emerging tech into measurable product value while knowing when not to use it. Colleagues describe him as an inventive, distractible dev with a knack for refactoring legacy builds and improving test coverage — a practical innovator who prioritises quality and maintainability.
16 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology Software Engineering, Bachelor of Information Technology Software Engineering at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
English
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Github Skills (28)
compatible10
javascript10
testing10
typescript10
browser-support10
binding10
regular-expression10
automation10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
automations10
typescripts10
webrtc10
c-language9
datachannel9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
DamonOehlman/detect-browser
Jun 2014 - Dec 2021
Unpack a browser type and version from the useragent string
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 releases, 107 commits, 91 PRs in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Damon primarily contributed to the development of a browser detection library. Their work involved implementing features to identify various browsers and their versions, including edge, iOS edge, and miui. Additionally, they added detection for new versions of existing browsers, fixing bugs, and improving the overall accuracy of the browser detection functionality. The user also refactored code to use a TypeScript implementation and improve the documentation.
browserstringbrowsersbrowser-detectionbrowserify
node-webrtc/node-webrtc
Oct 2013 - Jun 2014
node-webrtc is a Node.js Native Addon that provides bindings to WebRTC M87
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Damon primarily worked on implementing and refining the core functionalities of the node-webrtc library. Their contributions centered around restructuring JavaScript proxies, updating connection states to align with the latest specifications, and exposing relevant events like `oniceconnectionstatechange`. They added a new suite of tests, particularly focusing on data channel connectivity. Furthermore, the user adapted the bridge example to leverage the new event signatures.
node-jsn-apiwebrtcjs-nativenodejs
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