Damon Smith
Front End Principle Engineer at Bell Potter Securities
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolDamon Smith is a senior front-end principal engineer based in Melbourne with 11 years of experience building and leading teams to deliver large-scale web, mobile and desktop applications. He pairs hands-on engineering—spanning React, Electron, cloud infra and embedded IoT work on ESP32—with pragmatic leadership that turns individual contributors into cohesive, high-performing teams. Damon has led major platform rebuilds and migrations to cloud, overseen hundreds of microservices and micro-frontends for national-scale systems like Australia Post, and shaped developer tooling and CI/CD to accelerate delivery. He also brings deep GNU/Linux and security expertise from roles at the Bureau of Meteorology, and a hobbyist’s curiosity for microcontrollers that surfaces in meaningful open-source ESP32 contributions. Focused on measurable operational reliability and developer experience, he balances technical stewardship with recruitment, budgeting and performance management to run successful engineering organisations.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science / Software Engineering, Computer Science / Software Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology
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Github Skills (19)
c-language10
esp3210
cprogramming-language10
wifi10
javascript9
sys9
embedded9
iot-devkit8
iot8
html6
react6
dom-events6
android6
jquery6
servlet6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nkolban/esp32-snippets
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
Sample ESP32 snippets and code fragments
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Damon primarily contributed to the `esp32-snippets` repository, focusing on the `esp32` topic. Their work involved modifying core functionality related to non-volatile storage (NVS) and WiFi capabilities. Key contributions included bug fixes for NVS operations, adding a function to retrieve WiFi connection status, and implementing the ability to connect to a station while maintaining an AP. These changes indicate a focus on enhancing the core operational reliability and versatility of the ESP32 platform.
esp32
damonsmith/image-expando
Jul 2019 - Aug 2025
Rust tool to take an image and generate an animated gif of it expanding from the centre of itself
Contributions:3 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 2 months
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