Dave Hourn
Senior Software Engineer at Dawson Andrews
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolDave Hourn is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with over a decade of hands-on web development experience, progressing from freelance work to leading teams at a digital agency. He has deep practical experience across PHP, CraftCMS, Laravel and React, running AWS-hosted projects with Dockerised local environments and CI/CD via GitHub Actions and Jenkins. Comfortable with both client-facing project planning and mentoring junior developers, he blends delivery-focused engineering with standards-driven team leadership. His background spans small agencies and startups building form-driven platforms with third‑party integrations, giving him a knack for pragmatic integrations and reliable product maintenance. A remote-working veteran who has operated across time zones, he often takes ownership of DevOps and deployment pipelines in addition to feature development.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Higher School Certificate, Higher School Certificate at Waverley CollegeDiploma of Information Technology (Software and Website Development), Diploma of Information Technology (Software and Website Development) at Swinburne University of Technology
English
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Github contributions (3)
mrmojorising/image-proxy
Sep 2023 - Mar 2024
Composer package to utilise imgproxy open source server for resizing and reformatting remote images.
Contributions:8 PRs, 24 pushes, 7 branches in 6 months
mrmojorising/laraveliddig
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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