Sylvester Damgaard
Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Cbox
Copenhagen Metropolitan Area Denmark
Summary
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SeniorSylvester Damgaard is a Principal Software Engineer specializing in infrastructure with over a decade of experience designing and operating cloud-native, highly available systems. He has led large migrations and platform builds—most notably a zero-downtime CMS and the migration of nearly one million videos—combining Kubernetes, AWS, containers, and Laravel-centric hosting to maximize scalability and cost-efficiency. At Laravel Cloud he helped shape hosting tailored for Laravel projects, and now drives infrastructure at Geocodio while running his long-standing consultancy Cbox. His contributions to the Statamic CMS backend show a practical focus on fixing core issues and improving developer ergonomics in popular open-source projects. Known for translating strategic goals into pragmatic technical solutions, he blends hands-on engineering with operational discipline in critical production environments. An entrepreneur at heart, he has repeatedly built products and teams—from startups to major regional broadcasters—bringing a pragmatic, migration-first mindset to complex platform challenges.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
English, Danish
Github Skills (7)
php10
laravel10
statamic10
laravel-mix10
content-management9
content-management-system9
testing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
statamic/cms
Apr 2023 - Jan 2025
The core Laravel CMS Composer package
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 PRs, 6 comments, 3 issues in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Sylvester contributed primarily to the backend of the Statamic CMS. Their work involved fixing blueprint errors, improving command resolution, making tags macroable, and addressing issues related to Bard field type processing. These changes included modifications to core classes, tag functionalities, and test cases. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving the CMS's functionality and resolving internal errors.
cmsssgprestashop-modulelaravel10composer
tv2regionerne/statamic-cache
Jan 2024 - Sep 2024
Automatically busts cache when entries and collections within the autotag are changed
Contributions:2 reviews, 32 PRs, 48 pushes in 8 months
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