Dale Dobson
Senior Software Engineer at Kunai
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDale Dobson is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience designing APIs, microservices, and robust testing practices, currently based in Providence, RI. He has progressed from QA and support roles into senior engineering, driving large efforts to decouple legacy monoliths, build policy-driven reservation and cancellation endpoints, and create scalable background processing with AWS Lambda. At Vacasa he combined deep domain knowledge with pragmatic tooling—replacing critical legacy flows, building CSV ingestion for tens of thousands of records, and optimizing data endpoints using Django and SQLAlchemy. Known for bridging stakeholder needs and engineering execution, he repeatedly delivers reliable production systems and CI/CD for serverless and containerized apps. Collected experience across operations, QE, and full-stack development gives him a practical eye for observability and maintainability that often surfaces before problems reach production.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Immersive Full-Stack Web Development, Web Development Immersive Full-Stack Web Development at General AssemblyB.A. College of Arts & Sciences Sociology, B.A. College of Arts & Sciences Sociology at University of Rhode IslandWeb & Graphic Design Certification, Web & Graphic Design Certification at New Horizons
English
Github Skills (75)
mongoose9
crud8
django-rest8
rest-framework8
packaging8
loader8
typescript8
vscode8
vscode-extension8
visual-studio7
editor7
django7
python7
electron7
django-rest-framework7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Vacasa/drf-jsonapi
Jun 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:16 releases, 30 commits, 25 PRs in 1 year 11 months
missing-circlecimissing-classificationapipythondjango-rest-framework
ddobson/dnd_spellbook
May 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:10 PRs, 13 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years
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