Jonathan Dawson
AWS Performance Architect - Enterprise Workloads at Quest Global
Bothell, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Dawson is an AWS Performance Architect with 11 years of experience designing and optimizing cloud-native, event-driven systems for enterprises, currently focused on high-volume AWS workloads for a Fortune 50 aerospace client. He blends deep reliability engineering roots from regulated, low-latency gaming and telematics systems with hands-on platform architecture—shaping scheduling, parallelization, and observability to balance performance, cost, and SLA-driven operations. Jonathan has led architecture governance and GenAI-readiness efforts at education and media organizations, translating reference architectures into practical, production-ready implementations. He excels at root-cause analysis across compute, storage, network, and database layers and at building capacity models and performance baselines that inform governance and design decisions. Comfortable in both customer-facing and engineering leadership roles, he pairs delivery-focused consulting experience with mentorship and operationalizing modern IaC and serverless patterns. An unusual background—having monitored ICU vital signs earlier in his career—gives him a practical, systems-level approach to critical-process observability and resilience.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Continuing Education, Engineering Leadership, Continuing Education, Engineering Leadership at University of WashingtonAAS, General Transfer Degree, AAS, General Transfer Degree at Shoreline Community CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Computing and Software Systems, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computing and Software Systems at University of Washington Bothell
Github Skills (2)
react5
javascript4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
redapt/node-express-redis-demo
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 8 PRs, 51 pushes in 1 month
redisnode-expressexpressjsexpressnodejs
redapt/node-aws-sdk-demo
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 39 pushes, 3 branches in 6 days
aws-lambdaaws-sdkinteractsdkaws-services
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