Keith Damiani
Director Of Engineering at Tighten
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolKeith Damiani is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years of hands-on software development experience and a creative background in design, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Tighten. He specializes in Laravel and Vue.js, application architecture, legacy code refactoring, and UX-driven solutions, while mentoring distributed teams and advising clients across hundreds of codebases on scalability, security, and delivery practices. Keith is an active open-source contributor—his work on Tighten projects like Jigsaw and a collections split from Illuminate demonstrates attention to maintainability, API compatibility, and flexible permalink handling. He champions pragmatic, “lower-case-a-agile” processes that balance craft and predictability, and he explores newer technologies like graph databases and PWAs to expand solution space. Combining a BA in Public Policy and a Master in Urban Planning with two decades of agency leadership, he brings unusual cross-disciplinary perspective to product strategy and technical tradeoffs. Colleagues rely on him for clear architectural judgment, hands-on problem solving, and thoughtful mentorship.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Urban Planning School of Architecture, Master of Urban Planning School of Architecture at University of VirginiaBachelor of Arts Public Policy, Bachelor of Arts Public Policy at Stanford University
English, Italian
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Github Skills (20)
url-routing10
strings10
laravel-mix10
text-manipulation10
laravel10
php10
namespaces10
refactoring10
static-site-generation10
mysql9
testing9
polymorphism9
eloquent9
phpunit8
vagrant6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tighten/jigsaw
Aug 2016 - Sep 2022
Simple static sites with Laravel’s Blade.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 releases, 18 reviews, 614 commits in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Keith focused on implementing features within the static site generator, Jigsaw, specifically related to the handling and management of permalinks. The commits showcase work to incorporate the `slugify` helper function, for automatically generating URL-friendly paths. Furthermore, the commits reveal the implementation of more flexible permalink configurations, including support for shorthand syntax and the integration of variables in the file names, which adds a lot more flexibility in the generation of URLs for website content.
laravel-sbladestatic-sitesphpsites
tighten/collect
Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
A Collections-only split from Laravel's Illuminate Support
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Keith primarily focused on refactoring and migrating code within the `tighten/collect` repository, a collections-only split from Laravel's Illuminate Support. Their contributions involved changing namespaces, aliasing classes to Illuminate namespace for backward compatibility, and renaming namespaces, indicating a deep understanding of the project's internal structure and dependency management. They also implemented and merged changes to fix and optimize code, indicating a focus on maintainability and improving the code's quality.
laravel-silluminatesplitilluminate-collectionsphp
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