Summary
Dalton Mcphaden is a Senior Software Engineer based in Vancouver with seven years of experience building full-stack systems for fintech and enterprise customers. Currently at Hiive, he focuses on infrastructure for private market trading and previously helped scale their marketplace from within, bringing deep Node.js, Postgres, and React expertise. His background spans fast-moving startups and large consultancies—at Vention he led a real-time event detection system and reduced frontend deployment lead time from 24 hours to 30 minutes through CI-driven artifact publishing. He also has experience with Elixir-based product work and multi-tenant SaaS dashboards from Deloitte, showing a knack for both technical craft and product-minded delivery. Trained in software engineering and business at Western and Ivey, he blends engineering rigor with commercial sensibility to ship reliable, user-focused systems.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - HBA Honours Business Administration, Bachelor of Arts - HBA Honours Business Administration at Ivey Business School at Western University
Bachelor of Engineering Science - BESc Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Science - BESc Software Engineering at Western University
Diplôme d'études collégiales Pure and Applied Science, Diplôme d'études collégiales Pure and Applied Science at Marianopolis College
English, French