Damien
Summary
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SeniorDamien Roche is a full-stack software engineer and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building web and game projects, currently running Bit Gonzo LTD and developing a co-op immersive sim, Final Defect, in Unreal Engine 5. He combines deep backend expertise—Kotlin, Ruby, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ—with modern frontend stacks like Next.js/TypeScript and cloud-native tooling such as Kubernetes. Previously he built personalization microservices at On the Beach and has long freelanced across LAMP, Rails, Node and DevOps, favoring pragmatic, production-ready systems. Damien also creates niche product experiments—like Moon Factor, a collaborative crypto research tool—and gravitates toward projects that blend technical depth with creative gameplay or product-market exploration. Frequently traveling, he focuses on small, multidisciplinary teams and tooling that helps entrepreneurs move from MVP to traction.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (138)
testing10
javascript10
kubernetes10
go10
vue10
docker10
facebook10
frontend10
mesos9
charts9
dao9
kotlin-android9
helm9
scheduling9
kubernetes-monitoring9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
stackweaver/tree
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:22 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
damien-roche/whist
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:1 PR, 33 pushes, 4 branches in 3 months
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