Joe Damato
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Damato is a distinguished engineer, technical leader and YC-backed founder with 17+ years of experience building low-level systems, products and businesses. As a member of Fastly’s Office of the CTO he invents, incubates and spins out technologies that have materially driven company value, and previously founded and scaled packagecloud.io from idea to acquisition. He combines deep systems expertise—C, x86/x64 assembly, OS internals, debuggers and build/packaging systems—with hands-on developer work on Netlink and CI deployment tooling in prominent open-source repos. Joe is known for debugging “weird” kernel and networking issues at customer sites and for expanding cross-platform build-and-test infrastructure to support heterogeneous fleets. He mentors early- and mid-career engineers and blends entrepreneurial grit with an engineer’s attention to edge cases and safety.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
YC Summer 2007, company founder., YC Summer 2007, company founder. at Y CombinatorBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Cognitive Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Spanish
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linux-kernel
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Github Skills (23)
system-programming10
linux10
c1110
networking10
ruby10
c1710
api10
netlink10
deployment-automation10
cicd9
apidoc9
linux-kernel9
operating-system9
documentation8
apim8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
thom311/libnl
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
Netlink Library Suite
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 5 commits in 22 days
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the `libnl` library, focusing on enhancing its functionality and robustness. Their work included addressing edge cases in utility functions, such as handling zero-value inputs for string conversions. The user also added support for the inet diag Netlink protocol, enabling the gathering of socket information, along with implementing related functionalities and documentation, and fixed safety issues. This work demonstrates a strong understanding of low-level networking and Netlink libraries.
netlink
travis-ci/dpl
Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
Dpl (dee-pee-ell) is a deploy tool made for continuous deployment.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Joe contributed to the `travis-ci/dpl` repository by adding and modifying the `packagecloud` provider for deployment. This involved implementing features for package uploads, authentication, and distribution handling. They also improved the code, changed version dependencies, and made modifications to documentation, ensuring accurate logging information. The contributions demonstrate knowledge of deployment tools, and the packagecloud platform.
continuous-deployment
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