Damon Williams
Staff Engineer at RealityMine
Tameside, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDamon Williams is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading web and serverless platforms, currently driving architecture and delivery at RealityMine in the UK. He blends hands-on PHP and front-end work with cloud-first practices—designing event-driven microservices, migrating legacy .NET systems to Serverless PHP, and converting infrastructure to Terraform. Damon champions CI/CD, PSR-12 standards, static analysis and mentoring, having led company-wide adoption of Angular, Lambda, Serverless Aurora and pipeline-driven file processing. An active open-source contributor, he added AWS Lambda Layers support to the widely used serverless-offline project to improve local emulation. Known for pragmatic migrations and developer enablement, he pairs deep technical craft with a track record of turning legacy challenges into modular, testable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Internet Computing with Industrial Experience, 2:1 with Honours, Bachelor’s Degree, Internet Computing with Industrial Experience, 2:1 with Honours at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (9)
aws-lambda10
docker10
serverless-framework10
dockers10
javascript9
nodejs9
testing8
aws-api-gateway-v27
aws-apigateway7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dherault/serverless-offline
Apr 2020 - Jul 2020
Emulate AWS λ and API Gateway locally when developing your Serverless project
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Damon primarily focused on adding support for AWS Lambda layers to the project, indicated by the code modifications in DockerContainer.js, ServerlessOffline.js, LambdaFunctionPool.js, LambdaFunction.js, and Http.js. These changes involved downloading and unzipping layers for local emulation, as well as integrating layer support within the core serverless-offline logic. Additionally, the user made changes to test files to ensure the layer functionality worked correctly.
api-gatewayapidevelopinglambda-functionsaws-lambda
footballencarta/thatsnotonbrand
Dec 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
brandcss
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