Nick Dawson
Lead Engineer at 🔴 Vinyl
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Dawson is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years’ experience building and scaling fintech platforms, currently serving as Lead Engineer in Sydney. He has progressed from mobile and embedded engineering to leading frontend, architecture and DevOps teams, architecting core APIs and SaaS infrastructure while meeting stringent security and CDR compliance. Nick has steered cross-functional teams as Interim CTO and Head of Platforms, translating customer and product needs into production-ready systems that balance innovation with operational resilience. Comfortable hands-on in iOS, embedded BLE and cloud infrastructure, he brings a rare blend of device-level insight and large-scale platform design. Known for joining early-stage teams to scope and launch MVPs, he pairs startup pragmatism with enterprise-grade governance.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Wellington SchoolBEng 2:1 Electronics Engineering & Computer Science, BEng 2:1 Electronics Engineering & Computer Science at University of Reading
Github Skills (43)
tinder10
picture-in-picture10
python10
collectionview10
koloda10
iot10
automation10
jekyll10
android10
home-assistant10
raspberry-pi10
react-native9
animation9
ios9
simplify9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Neonkoala/core
Mar 2021 - Nov 2023
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first
Contributions:3 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 8 months
raspberry-pihouseprivacy-firstprivacygarden
Neonkoala/hailolibero
Nov 2023 - Jan 2025
Python library to interface with the Hailo Libero 3.0
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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