Ewan Dawson
CTO at Compostable AI
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEwan Dawson is a seasoned CTO with 13 years’ experience helping early and mid-stage SaaS startups scale technology and teams, currently leading technical direction at Compostable AI and serving as a fractional CTO through Kutoa Consulting. He combines enterprise-grade architecture and operational rigor—re-architecting an acquired authorization product into a multi-tenant SaaS at Ping—with hands-on engineering, having built real-time, browser-based avatar and speech-processing systems using Deepgram and Azure AI. Ewan has a track record of growing and retaining high-performing teams, establishing 24/7 support and observability practices, and translating complex regulated-finance requirements into resilient, low-latency systems. Based in Edinburgh and trained in physics at the University of Edinburgh, he brings a data-driven, systems-thinking approach and an unusual blend of applied research collaborations and product delivery experience.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics at The University of Edinburgh
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (66)
vim10
spacemacs10
melpa10
emacs-lsp10
emacs10
emacs-lisp9
object-oriented-programming9
bootstrap9
mercurial9
pharo8
smalltalk8
notebook7
knowledge-management7
ide7
datanucleus7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
EwanDawson/kutoa
Aug 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
EwanDawson/pharo
Apr 2020 - Aug 2021
Pharo is a dynamic reflective pure object-oriented language supporting live programming inspired by Smalltalk.
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 4 months
pharolive-programmingreflectivesmalltalkcompiler
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