Summary
Dawn Code is a founder and seasoned software and leadership practitioner with 25+ years of corporate leadership and 11 years focused on modern software delivery, blockchain, and CI/CD. She builds practical, sustained learning interventions—translating hands-on experience from Tech, Healthcare, and Finance into measurable team behavior change rather than one-off events. As founder of Decode Horsemanship she pairs Equine Assisted Learning with L&D strategy, using horses as candid, real-time mirrors to accelerate leadership insight for corporate and executive cohorts. Her technical roots include founding and advising multiple blockchain and decentralized-technology ventures where she emphasized clean code, test automation, and scalable CI/CD pipelines. Colleagues describe her as a practitioner who blends rigorous engineering discipline with unconventional facilitation methods—she literally brings mustangs to boardroom-level conversations. Based in Raleigh, NC, she’s completing PATH International EAL certification and continues to bridge bleeding-edge tech with human-centered development.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Clemson University