Dawson Whitehead
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDawson Whitehead is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with eight years of experience building cloud services for Azure App Services, blending systems-level thinking with full-stack delivery. A University of Chicago CS graduate specializing in computer systems, he moves comfortably between object-oriented, functional, and systems programming to solve performance and reliability challenges. His background includes system administration and tooling at his alma mater, giving him a pragmatic eye for operational improvement and developer workflows. Dawson has broad internship experience across devops, performance engineering, and QA, which informs a disciplined CI/CD and Agile approach to shipping features. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he pairs production-grade cloud engineering with hands-on debugging skills uncommon for typical application developers. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who both optimizes low-level behavior and automates the path to repeatable deployments.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Williamson County Honor's Diploma, Williamson County Honor's Diploma at Franklin High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Chicago
Github Skills (13)
powerpoint8
spellchecker8
game-engine7
game-development7
cpu7
cli4
redis4
text-based3
java2
autocomplete1
react1
flutter1
command-line1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dwahme/shellcraft
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:67 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
dwahme/advent_of_code
Dec 2019 - Dec 2024
Contributions:85 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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