Etienne Damon
Global Community Lead at MobilityData
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolEtienne Damon is a community and open-data leader with over a decade driving public-sector data programs and five years focused on developer and product engagement. As Global Community Lead at MobilityData he connects agencies, developers and partners around transit standards like GTFS, advocating community needs into product roadmaps. Previously he coordinated large-scale API and open-data deployments for the French government (api.gouv.fr, data.gouv.fr), prioritizing releases that matched real demand across citizens, companies and policymakers. He pairs hands-on product work and front-end contributions to notable open-source projects (including meaningful UI and API feature work on the widely used api.gouv.fr repository) with strategy, team coaching and stakeholder management. Trained in political science, urban design and entrepreneurship, he brings a rare mix of policy literacy and technical fluency that helps translate civic requirements into usable data services. Colleagues value him for turning complex governance constraints into practical, well-adopted data products.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Online program - stratégies d'entrepreneuriat, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Online program - stratégies d'entrepreneuriat, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Ecole de Management de LyonBachelor degree in sustainable urban design and environment., Architecture, Bachelor degree in sustainable urban design and environment., Architecture at Institut de Géoarchitecture de BrestDEUG de Géographie + Droit, Environnement, planning, contract law, business law, etc..., DEUG de Géographie + Droit, Environnement, planning, contract law, business law, etc... at Université Jean Moulin (Lyon III)6th Form, Year 12, 6th Form, Year 12 at John F. Kennedy Catholic School - Hemel Hempsted (UK)Master's degree, Political Science and Government, Alternative policies and strategies for cities, Master's degree, Political Science and Government, Alternative policies and strategies for cities at Sciences Po Lyon - Institut d'Etudes Politiques
French, English, Italian, Indonesian
Github Skills (11)
javascript10
api10
apidoc10
react10
github9
css8
html8
cross-platform7
e-government7
g7
platform-agnostic7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
betagouv/api.gouv.fr
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Liste les API disponibles au sein de l'administration française
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:48 reviews, 468 commits, 411 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Etienne contributed significantly to the front-end of the project, implementing new API features and updating the user interface components. They added new API options, including features related to "statut etudiant", "statutDe", and "indemnisationPe", modifying the "france-connected-api" question tree. They also made updates to the "apiDetails.tsx" and "guide stats" pages. In addition, the user merged branches and updated existing components.
apiadministrationlistegovernmentles
datactivist/nextjs-doc
Mar 2023 - Jun 2024
An website for Datactivist's open content
Contributions:1 review, 376 PRs, 440 pushes in 1 year 2 months
markdownnextjs
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.