Hi, I'm Damien Ostler
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Versatile, customer-focused Senior Software Engineer with deep experience modernizing legacy .NET systems, architecting microservices, and integrating AI/ML into production. I blend traditional .NET enterprise engineering and DevOps with AI model fine-tuning and orchestration, and multi-cluster infrastructure automation.
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All projectsd4m13n.dev — Portfolio & Blog
This very site — a portfolio with a built-in blog. Next.js (App Router) frontend on a PocketBase backend, dark/cyan MUI theme, a markdown blog with syntax highlighting, RSS and sitemap. Ships as a Dockerized stack behind Caddy, with CI/CD that scans and publishes versioned images to GHCR.
MechanicBuddy
A white-label workshop management SaaS for vehicle service centers — work orders, client/vehicle profiles, inventory, invoicing and PDF generation. Layered .NET 9 API with NHibernate and a Next.js frontend. The full platform automates tenant provisioning and configuration for each workshop; the live demo currently exposes a single provisioned application (the tenant-configuration automation isn’t available in the demo yet) and is deployed with Docker rather than Kubernetes. Try the workshop demo at https://demo-mechanicbuddy.d4m13n.dev/ and log in with admin / demo. Explore the SaaS management portal at https://mechanicbuddy.d4m13n.dev/. Full documentation at https://docs.mechanicbuddy.app/.
Commissions.app — Core API
The .NET 8 core API and database layer for Commissions.app, an art-commission SaaS platform that lets creatives sell their services without heavy moderation. Microservice backend documented with Swagger and containerized with Docker. The live demo API is currently deployed with Docker rather than Kubernetes at https://api-commissions.d4m13n.dev/; sign in with [email protected] / d3m0p4ssw0rd!@.
Commissions.app — Web UI
The Next.js frontend for Commissions.app, with Auth0 authentication and SSR. Lets creatives list services and clients browse and commission work. The live demo is currently deployed with Docker rather than Kubernetes at https://commissions.d4m13n.dev/; sign in with [email protected] / d3m0p4ssw0rd!@.
Commissions.app — GitOps Deployment
GitOps deployment for Commissions.app — Helm charts and ArgoCD application manifests that deploy the platform to Kubernetes, with separate dev configuration.
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