Danny Dawson
Engineering Manager at SEEK
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDanny Dawson is an engineering manager and seasoned product builder with 11 years of experience leading and scaling teams across startups and large organisations, currently working in Melbourne for Jora/SEEK. He blends hands-on staff-engineer level technical craft with strategic leadership, having moved from senior Ruby developer roles into director and engineering manager positions at Cookpad, Inventor-e, and PwC Ventures. Comfortable across full-stack web technologies and delivery models, he’s repeatedly stepped into roles that bridge product, ops and architecture to ship reliable systems at scale. His background spans early careers in infrastructure and AV systems through to modern web engineering, giving him a pragmatic systems-thinking approach to trade-offs and team structure. Colleagues know him for turning ambiguous problems into clear roadmaps and for mentoring engineers to grow into leadership while still caring about code quality.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development - Learn.co, Full Stack Web Development - Learn.co at Flatiron SchoolDuke of Yorks Royal Military School
Github Skills (24)
programming-language10
ruby10
rust10
jit10
libary9
stream9
simplify7
routes7
rails7
sinatra6
google-maps5
prometheus-exporter4
prometheus3
ruby-on-rails3
poc3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dannyd4315/worlds-best-restaurants-cli-gem
Jan 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
inventor-e-ltd/dossier
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:3 reviews, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 6 months
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