Vaughn Dickson
Freelance Software Engineer at Vaughn Dickson Consulting
Durbanville, South Africa
Summary
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SeniorVaughn Dickson is a Freelance Software Engineer and former freelance CTO with roughly 13 years of hands-on experience building and scaling SaaS startups across a 20-year career arc. Based in Durbanville, South Africa, he combines strategic product thinking with day-to-day engineering—comfortable architecting systems, shipping features, and guiding small teams. He has a track record of taking early-stage SaaS products from concept to scale, emphasizing pragmatic, maintainable solutions that support rapid growth. As an independent consultant he pairs startup agility with institutional engineering practices, making him a strong fit for companies needing technical leadership without long-term overhead.
13 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
286reputation
13kreached
4answers
2questions
Github Skills (116)
controller10
elasticsearch10
django10
search-engine10
java10
user-experience10
restful10
flexibility10
cms9
opensearch9
python9
firmware9
wagtail9
database8
in-progress8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
wizenoze/justext-java
Aug 2016 - Jan 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 4 years 5 months
vaughnd/clojure-example-logback-integration
Sep 2012 - Feb 2014
Contributions:10 commits in 1 year 5 months
clojure-toolslogginglogging-librarylogbackintegrating
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