Damon Snyder
Software Engineer at Dream Skates
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDamon Snyder is a pragmatic software engineer and hands-on leader with 17 years of experience building high-performance web and infrastructure systems, currently splitting time between core service development at Rebellion Defense and running a figure skate tech business in Kansas City. He has led distributed teams at Fandom, delivering large-scale pipelines and services—most notably a feed handling 500k+ documents and a user profile event pipeline processing ~70M events/day that helped generate substantial revenue. Damon’s background spans DevOps, systems programming, microservices, and machine learning integration, with production work in PHP, Clojure, Go, Java, Python, and R and deep experience tuning Linux/OS, IO, and databases. He contributed backend improvements to the widely used Wikia/app, focusing on user preferences and settings, and has a track record of turning complex performance and scalability challenges into reliable systems. A student of statistics and ML, he recently completed Stanford’s Statistical Learning course and pairs analytical rigor with pragmatic product-driven engineering.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Florida State University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (13)
php10
phpunit10
dependency-injection9
mediawiki8
fork6
clojure6
capistrano6
varnish6
apache6
postgresql6
python6
ruby6
cgi6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Wikia/app
May 2014 - Jun 2019
Wikia Application Code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:460 commits, 98 PRs, 184 pushes in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Damon's commits primarily focused on back-end development tasks related to user preferences and settings within the Wikia application. They implemented, tested, and refactored code related to fetching, setting, and saving user preferences. The contributions involved the use of dependency injection and the modification of existing user-related classes, as well as updates to related testing infrastructure. This work appears to be centered around improving and maintaining the application's user management and settings functionality.
wikiphpwikiamediawiki
Wikia/api-gateway
Apr 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:1 release, 38 PRs, 66 pushes in 1 year 1 month
api-gatewayapiluanginxnginx-api-gateway
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