# Dominic Damian

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: San Diego, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/dominicdamian

I am a senior software engineer currently at Jock MKT, a fantasy sports platform that combines live trading and real-time pricing. With over 15 years of experience in full stack development, I have scaled brand new companies from zero to product market fit and led engineering teams in multiple high growth startups.

My core competencies include Typescript, React, React Native, AWS, Node.JS, PostgreSQL, Next.JS, REST & GraphQL. I enjoy working with small teams, collaborating with business leadership, and learning from talented co-workers. My mission is to build modern applications with distributed teams at scale, using the best practices and technologies available.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ olive
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Jock MKT
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Engineering Manager @ Remo
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
- Managed up to 10 direct engineer reports distributed globally
- Managed hiring and interview process for engineering department
- Led team responsible for WebRTC platform, streaming ~20 million minutes per month.
- Improved code test coverage to over 80% across the monorepo (client, server, lambda functions, custom modules)
- Configured and managed AWS services (RDS, AppSync, Lambdas, VPC, ECS, Elasticache) through Serverless framework templates in Typescript
- Improved CI/CD, delivery process using Github Actions. Decreased build times and spend.
- Managed team(s) responsible for Node.JS API, Lambdas, GraphQL subscriptions service, presence management, and a React/Typescript client application
- Configured and manage Datadog for performance, logging, and error tracking. 
- Built internal tools via Retool for customer support and product leaders
- Assisted in becoming ISO 27001 & SOC 2 certified via Vanta

### Senior Software Engineer @ Knowable
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
- Led development of content creator platform. Allowed users to create and sell their own audio courses and list them in the marketplace
- Created subscription model and client migration from single unit sales model
- Improved API (NodeJS) response times and database (MySQL) integration, query performance and data modeling
- Worked with iOS team to produce parity with the web client
- Assisted in developing and launching curated courses for Knowable Originals
- Led development of internal tools and data analytics

### Engineering Lead / Senior Software Engineer @ Sandbox VR
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
- First hire of online engineering team 
- Led development of Typescript Node.JS GraphQL API
- Established developer culture and processes including version control, CI/CD, monitoring solutions, unit testing, and E2E testing
- Built a React.JS website to deliver user accounts, completed experience pages, experience invitations, experience booking process and checkout. Integrated with Contentful CMS for team wide management. Integrated with 3rd party booking management software to deliver seamless checkout for users
- Managed and configured scalable Kubernetes cluster and other Google Cloud Platform services such as Pub/Sub, Memorystore, and Cloud SQL. 
- Developed a Pub/Sub check in service to manage experience check ins and deliver data to multiple stores with GraphQL subscriptions in real time
- Built a Node.JS TV service to manage and integrate with a fleet of tvOS devices in stores across multiple continents using Firebase
- Helped in the opening of 7 US corporate locations and launched 3 experiences. 
- Helped in recruitment and hiring process growing immediate team to size of six engineers

### Mentor @ Thinkful
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019
- Mentored 1-on-1 with video sessions, code review, and managing students progress. 
- Meet 3x per week with each student face to face for one hour. 
- Taught HTML, CSS, Git, Javascript, Node, React, Redux, Jest, Enzyme and basic CS concepts
- Led in person workshops for new and current developers

### Senior Software Engineer @ CrystalCommerce
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Remote
- Full Stack Developer managing a Ruby on Rails API with multiple React front ends. 
- Managed over 1M SKU product catalog servicing 1000+ retail stores worldwide. 
- Created a React based site builder for stores to manage their own catalog, storefront, and business website 
- Managed a MongoDB cluster and an ElasticSearch catalog

### Full Stack Engineer @ Kangarootime
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
- Developed React application for managing children and teachers at child care centers across the country in using realtime data from a Ruby on Rails API along with Redis

### Full Stack Engineer @ Heavybit Industries
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
- Led development of client website & video library. Developed transcription platform and custom CMS for video library. Used Ruby, Sinatra, and vanilla JS integrated with 3rd party APIs

### Full Stack Engineer @ Fifty & Fifty
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013
- Led the development team at Fifty & Fifty working with clients including; Invisible Children, KONY 2012, Charity Water, The LXD and others. Technologies ranged from Ruby On Rails, e-commerce, mobile website and application development, and custom Salesforce integrations.


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dominic-damian

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Last updated: 2026-03-22