Hannah Dawson
Senior Backend Engineer at CCP
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHannah Dawson is a Senior Backend Engineer in London with nine years' experience building event-driven, cloud-native systems for games and retail platforms. At CCP she engineers Go microservices, AWS-deployed matchmaking and analytics integrations for live game services, and contributes to the open-source Space Station 14 backend—bringing practical multiplayer game-scale experience. She also leads independent game development projects in Unity and VRChat, with multiple titles achieving hundreds of thousands of unique visits, blending server-side robustness with playable design. Comfortable across NoSQL and SQL, serverless Lambdas, and ECS containers, she champions high code quality and pragmatic testing from her early QA roots. Hannah explicitly focuses on creative-sector work, pairing production-grade backend engineering with first-hand game design and player-facing systems knowledge.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BScEcon International Politics and History, BScEcon International Politics and History at Aberystwyth UniversityA Levels: History (B) English Language (B) Physics (C). AS Levels: Mathematics (C) Economics (C), A Levels: History (B) English Language (B) Physics (C). AS Levels: Mathematics (C) Economics (C) at Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School
English
Github Skills (12)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
space-wizards/space-station-14
Dec 2023 - Apr 2025
A multiplayer game about paranoia and chaos on a space station. Remake of the cult-classic Space Station 13.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:179 reviews, 62 PRs, 688 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Hannah primarily focused on improving the game's backend systems. Their contributions include fixing bugs related to chat features by removing markup and sanitizing speech, migrating lathe material ejection code to the material storage system. They also addressed round restart audio issues and implemented fixes for round-end announcements, improving overall game functionality. Furthermore, the user also contributed to the nerf of vending machines, impacting gameplay balance.
chaosgamespace-station-14rpgc-sharp
VRCBilliards/vrcbce
Mar 2021 - Aug 2022
VRCBilliards: Community Edition
Contributions:23 releases, 10 reviews, 101 commits in 1 year 5 months
prefabquestcommunity-editionunityvrchat
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