Damien Smrt
Senior Software Engineer at Cigna Healthcare
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDamien Smrt is a Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead based in Denver with a decade of hands-on experience building data-intensive, distributed applications on AWS. He specializes in Identity and Access Management and has delivered robust IdP integrations and SAML-based authentication across large organizations. Damien combines systems design and programming-language-level thinking to solve complex business problems, while enjoying infrastructure-as-code with AWS CDK and serverless architectures. A pragmatic team player and communicator, he has moved between consulting and enterprise roles at Cigna, Comcast, and Health Care Service Corporation, consistently shipping secure, scalable solutions. An active open-source contributor, he has improved authentication and backend stability in the well-known Craft CMS project, reflecting attention to both security and maintainability.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Human Development, Bachelor of Arts Human Development at California State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
yii10
content-management-system10
authentication10
user-authentication10
craftcms10
php10
content-management10
saml9
twig8
generics6
database6
functional-interface6
lambda6
gradle6
databases6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
craftcms/cms
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Build bespoke content experiences with Craft.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 commit, 1 PR, 8 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Damien primarily contributed to the Craft CMS backend, focusing on bug fixes and feature enhancements. They addressed typing issues in database records and implemented changes related to authentication, specifically regarding SAML processes and the AuthController. Further contributions included refactoring the AuthProviderInterface and AuthSSO, along with merging updates from the 5.0 branch, which included fixing merge conflicts in various files.
cmsbespokecraftprestashop-modulecraft3
flipboxfactory/saml-sp
Jan 2018 - Dec 2022
SAML Service Provider (SP) Plugin for Craft CMS
Contributions:28 releases, 379 commits, 54 PRs in 5 years
craftcmssaml-service-provider
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