Damien Smith

How I got here.

I didn't grow up coding. I picked Computer Engineering at Queen's because I liked math and software seemed cool, and it didn't really click until my first job in software, when I saw code I'd written turn into something people could use. I've been hooked since.

That job was at Console One, a startup founded by ex-Amazon engineering leaders. I was one of its first two developers, and we were building a browser IDE on the idea that configuring the cloud, not writing code, was the real bottleneck. I built the first prototype and the multiplayer version control underneath it, and kept working part-time through school.

In between, I spent a year at Moves Financial, a fintech for gig workers, working full-stack on their app in React Native, Node.js and MongoDB. It was my first time on an established engineering team, shipping to thousands of users.

After graduating I went back to Console One and became Head of Product Engineering six months later. I led a small team of interns on the IDE, then became the main engineer on StoryLens, a local-first desktop app that connects to a team's tools and writes their reports. Most of my recent work is the layer that helps AI agents use tools well: connectors, context management and workflows. I'm still pushing StoryLens forward.

Now I'm looking for a hands-on engineering role on a product team I can grow with.

Outside of work I play sports and run. I'm also the kind of person who builds something when I want it to exist, which is where most of the projects on this site came from.

1. 2024 – PresentHead of Product EngineeringConsole One · StoryLens · Shared Office
2. 2022 – 2023Software Engineer InternMoves Financial
3. 2021 – 2022Software DeveloperConsole One
4. 2019 – 2024B.A.Sc. Computer EngineeringQueen's University