Damien Stuart
Chief Engineer at 11:11 SYSTEMS
Edgewater, Maryland, United States
Summary
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RockstarDamien Stuart is a seasoned chief engineer with over four decades of hands-on experience and more than 25 years in senior technical leadership, designing, building, and supporting complex OSS and infrastructure systems across global data centers. He blends deep systems and software expertise—spanning C, Python, Go, Java, Unix/Linux and Windows administration, databases, clustering, and monitoring—with practical hardware maintenance and automation skills. Damien has led architecture and operational support at organizations like Sungard and 11:11 Systems, delivering resilient monitoring, alerting, and integration platforms using tools such as Zenoss, Prometheus, Grafana, and HPE UCMDB/OMi. A pragmatic security-minded engineer, he’s contributed to the well-regarded fwknop single-packet-authorization project, improving Windows compatibility, HMAC/GPG checks, and build reliability. Known for turning disparate systems into unified, auditable operations, he also brings low-level networking and embedded-electronics roots from early work with the US Coast Guard and defense projects. Based in Edgewater, MD, Damien combines institutional knowledge with continual hands-on coding and tooling work, making him equally effective in strategy and in-the-weeds problem resolution.
26 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (19)
authorizations10
it-security10
firewall10
authentication10
user-authentication10
c1110
security10
c1710
hmac10
authorization10
zero-trust9
api8
apim8
api-design8
sh6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mrash/fwknop
Jul 2011 - Dec 2022
Single Packet Authorization > Port Knocking
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:1 review, 88 commits, 17 PRs in 11 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Damien primarily focused on enhancing the security and functionality of the `fwknop` project. They implemented features for resolving external IP addresses via HTTP, allowing users to specify a URL for this purpose, and made modifications to the client configuration, including HMAC key support. They also contributed to the Windows build compatibility, addressing issues related to file paths, and implemented GPG validity checks, thereby improving the overall security posture. Furthermore, the user refactored the autoconf process for improved reliability.
authorizationport-knockerauthenticationspazero-trust
damienstuart/pigpio
Jan 2018 - Aug 2021
pigpio is a C library for the Raspberry which allows control of the General Purpose Input Outputs (GPIO).
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 7 months
raspberry-pic-librarygpiooutputsraspberry
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