Damien Ryan
Head Of Engineering at The Telegraph
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDamien Ryan is an engineering manager and operations leader based in Cambridge with over two decades of experience building and scaling reliable software delivery organisations. He has led transformations from siloed functional teams to cross-functional, cloud-first engineering organisations—most recently scaling Featurespace’s engineering org by 50% while driving a move from distributed monoliths to independent platform components. Comfortable across release engineering, CI/CD and governance, Damien’s background ranges from hands-on build and release automation to director-level strategy and people leadership. He now balances an engineering management role at The Telegraph with consulting through Comhbhá, coaching and writing on process, product and lifecycle improvements. His academic grounding in computer science and psychological research methods gives him a pragmatic, evidence-led approach to engineering management and team dynamics. Known for turning slow, manual release practices into predictable, automated pipelines, he quietly focuses on sustainable hiring and measurable operational metrics.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Psychological Research Methods, MSc Psychological Research Methods at The Open UniversityBSc Applied Science (CompSci and Software Engineering), BSc Applied Science (CompSci and Software Engineering) at Technological University DublinLeaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate at St. Patrick's Cathedral Grammar School
French
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Github Skills (28)
lastfm10
discord9
windows-explorer9
git-client9
tfs9
music9
visual-studio8
windows8
gitextensions8
regex8
git8
java7
linux7
android7
jenkins6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Laures/chocolatey-packages
Nov 2015 - Jun 2023
A collection of packages for chocolatey
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 comments in 7 years 8 months
chocolatey
djryan/Chocolatey
Nov 2014 - Jul 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 7 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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