Damien Otis
Senior Full-Stack
Engineer
Damien Otis
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
March 2017 -
Present
Senior Front-end Engineer
8 Years 1 Months
Ylopo is a next-generation Complete Digital Marketing Solution designed to help real estate brokerages find more clients, build their brand, and grow their teams.

Working with React, Node.JS, mapping data and location search, AWS, distributed systems, and a lot more.

We support hundreds of clients with a white-label website, integrated with our custom real estate search, MLS/IDX data, as well as Facebook marketing tools and customer AI sms/text engagement.
March 2016 -
March 2017
Senior Front-end Engineer
1 Year 1 Month
I worked on the Pulse Apex team at Velocify. The work consisted primarily of AngularJS on top of Salesforce. I contributed to open-source projects such as textAngular and Ui-Select. Most of my team was laid-off in a round of cuts that were required as a condition before the company was sold to Ellie Mae.

Clients included:
Nov 2014 -
Jan 2016
Senior Front-end Engineer
1 Year 3 Months
Splice.com can be described as “Github for musicians”, and “Soundcloud on steroids”. It’s a cutting-edge social music production platform that is helping musicians collaborate, as well as show off their music with a multi-track music player that lets visitors solo specific elements of the music to see how it was written.

I was responsible for all aspects of front-end engineering as well as building the Splice Sample e-Commerce Store, the first storefront to offer a subscription model for purchasing from over 500,000 audio samples. I also built the Plug-in store for synthesizer plugins, and I worked on the multi-track audio player.

I was also responsible for creating Splice's admin console, which includes all aspects managing the Splice Sounds Sample library of 500,000+ samples, and advanced tools to manage the huge amount of metadata involved with tagging samples and ingesting content, as well as promos and other e-commerce settings.

While I worked there, Splice was built on an AngularJS front-end and a Go back-end. I also did a lot of work with Web Audio API, HTML5 Canvas, Nodejs, Gulp, and lots more.

May 2014 -
Nov 2014
Senior Front-end Engineer
7 Months
I initially focused on NodeJS and AngularJS, JavaScript, HTML5, LESS/CSS3, among other interesting technologies. I also worked on integrating native mobile-app webviews with a nodejs server and socket.io. One of the founders of Onestop.com (my previous job) hired me to work at Incroud.com as employee #1, but sadly Incroud was a case of "fail fast" due to sudden market competiton from Apple Music and Tidal.
Sept 2013 -
May 2014
Senior Front-end Engineer
9 Months
I was hired at Onestop.com as their front-end platform engineer. I worked on modernizing their front-end code, as well as engineering new features for their many clients, and debugging back-end issues. The work was primarily Knockout.js and Javascript, with LESS, Bootstrap, and some .NET programming.

This was a white-label project that used themes to customize the layout and graphics to each client's needs.

Clients included:
Onestop is now part of Branded Online.
Sept 2010 -
Sept 2013
Senior Front-end Engineer
3 Years 1 Month
I worked on a complex HTML5/SVG web application at Mashon.com for their web-based product creation tools. The 'Dabble' web app is an end-to-end ecommerce platform for product customization.

The Dabble web app allowed customers to customize T-shirts, baseball caps, iPhone skins, coffee mugs, and many other products using uploaded images, vector art, typefaces and drawing tools all accessible from an HTML5 web browser.

The web app could be embedded on any website with a standard shopping cart (yahoo, magento, etc), and had a "white label" interface that could be customized to each client's needs.

I developed the customer-facing e-commerce web application for customizing products, as well as the admin interface that was used to create product templates for the 900+ different SKUs we offered.

Clients included:
May 2008 -
Aug 2010
Senior Front-end Engineer
2 Years 4 Months
Ranker is a list making website that gets over 8 million unique visitors per month. I was employee #1, and worked with back-end Java developers to create the system, with an advanced AJAX drag-and-drop user interface for making lists out of a data set of many millions of items across thousands of categories, linked to many classification databases, integrated with various social networking platforms.
May 2003 -
March 2008
Senior Front-end Engineer
4 Years 11 Months
My time at CinemaNow gave me ample room to prove my skills in front-end web development, streaming media delivery, as well as back-end programming. I developed complex streaming video web applications, content-management tools, and tools that ran the comapany's e-mail marketing efforts.

I developed the front-end UI code for Cinemanow's Media Manager content download application. This was a desktop C++application with an HTML/Javascript GUI front-end. The application included a download queue with drag-and-drop reordering. It uses ActiveX and Windows Media Player as well as being integrated with DVD burning capabilities.

I developed CinemaNow's entry into the Archos Content Portal - an AJAX based movie download storefront that runs on the Archos 605 portable device. The Archos 605 is a Linux-based device with an embedded version of the Opera web browser that works with Windows Media DRM content. We launched it on time and it became a significant revenue stream for Cinemanow.
  • Developed DRM-enabled video streaming and pay-per-minute front-end interfaces.
  • Created HTML front-end interfaces for C++/ActiveX media download and DVD burning application.
  • Architecting and implementation of mobile video download storefront on Archos linux devices using embedded Opera web browser to purchase and authorize and play Windows Media DRM files.
  • Developed numerous in-house admin systems for running complex email campaigns.
  • Built systems for automation of scanning DVD artwork, and processing a video title end-to-end from reception of the disk to final distribution of content on the user-facing website.
  • Created “10-foot experience” interfaces for Windows Media Center.
March 2001 -
March 2002
Front-end Developer
1 Year
Eyematic was a pioneering company in computer vision and motion tracking. I was involved in web development with Eyematic's web browser 3D ActiveX plugin, as well as developing and maintaining Eyematic's websites. Eyematic rebranded as Nevenvision and was then sold to Google which developed the technologies into google goggles (reverse image search), as well as other computer vision systems.
Freelancing (various projects)
2000 -
2004
Full-stack Developer
4 Years
I worked for a variety of companies as a freelance full-stack developer.