Summary
Dave Carson is a Senior .NET Developer with 11+ years of professional experience building web, mobile, and desktop applications across Manufacturing, Healthcare, Finance, Defence, Local Government, and the Motor Industry. He combines deep C#/.NET Core and SQL Server expertise with full-stack front-end experience (Angular, JavaScript) and mobile app delivery using Xamarin and MAUI, having shipped multiple iOS and Android apps to production. Comfortable joining teams mid-project, he has led small teams as a Technical Team Lead, mentored developers from graduate to senior levels, and improved processes to raise engineering quality. His track record includes greenfield builds, legacy migrations (VB6→.NET, ASP→MVC, Xamarin→MAUI) and secure, highly reliable systems. A pragmatic, hands-on engineer, he thrives in micro-consultancy and product teams alike and is currently based in East Devon seeking a permanent .NET role in the UK. Notably, he pairs formal Agile (PSM I) and earlier PRINCE2 experience with a habit of rapidly understanding complex, evolving codebases.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
PGD, Software Development, PGD, Software Development at Glasgow Caledonian University
BEng(hons), Mechanical Engineering, BEng(hons), Mechanical Engineering at University of Plymouth