Damian Conway

Damian Conway
Damian Conway giving a talk in Lausanne in 2020
Born	(1964-10-05) 5 October 1964 (age 56) Melbourne, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Occupation	Author, programmer, professor, speaker
Employer	Thoughtstream
Known for	Perl 6 design

Damian Conway (born 5 October 1964 in Melbourne, Australia) is a computer scientist, a member of the Perl and Raku communities, a public speaker, and the author of several books. Until 2010, he was also an adjunct associate professor in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University.

Damian completed his BSc (with honours) and PhD at Monash. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) and Raku (Perl 6) language design, and his training courses, both on programming techniques and public speaking skills.

He has won the Larry Wall Award three times for CPAN contributions.^[1] His involvement in Perl 6 language design has been as an interlocutor and explicator of Larry Wall.

He is one of the authors of the Significantly Prettier and Easier C++ Syntax (SPEC).^[2]