Riley Dawson
Co-Founder & CTO at Gaze and Movement Analysis
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolRiley Dawson is a Co-Founder and CTO with 12 years of hands-on software experience, currently building gaze and movement analysis solutions from Edmonton. He brings a strong blend of research-driven development and product delivery, having led software engineering efforts at the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry where he designed modular systems, mentored students, and contributed to research outputs. Proficient in MATLAB, Java, JavaScript and full-stack web technologies, Riley has a track record of shipping practical tools—from mobile festival apps to employee tracking systems—and moving legacy platforms into modern, componentized architectures. His academic background (MEng in Software Engineering & Intelligent Systems and an MBA) signals both technical depth and business acumen, and his role as a founder shows a bent for turning research capabilities into applied, market-facing technology. An underappreciated strength is his experience bridging academic research workflows with production-grade code and reproducible analysis, making him effective at translating complex scientific needs into maintainable software.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Software Engineering & Intelligent Systems, Master of Engineering - MEng, Software Engineering & Intelligent Systems at University of AlbertaSummer Session in Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Summer Session in Asian Studies, Japanese Studies at Sophia University
French, Japanese
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Github Skills (38)
eye-tracking8
camera-calibration7
ngrx7
angular6
android6
angularjs6
fortran6
python6
intersect6
ruby6
java6
javascript6
multi-camera6
robotics5
motion-capture4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Gnarlywhale/VR-Bento-Arm
May 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:312 pushes, 24 branches in 3 months
Gnarlywhale/DiscordEarsBot
May 2021 - Apr 2022
A speech-to-text framework and bot for Discord. Take control of your Discord server using speech and voice commands. Can also be useful for hearing impaired and deaf people.
Contributions:276 pushes in 11 months
discordspeech-to-textbotdiscord-botspeech-recognition
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