Rob Dawson

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Chief Technology Officer at Consensys @ Consensys
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About Rob Dawson

IT Developer and Leader with experience in a wide range of technologies, including thin and thick clients, agile and heavy methodologies, security and protocols. I love working with motivated people and helping them build great software.There are two things I'm passionate about in my career. Building useful software, and helping my teams to do the same. I love working through new ideas, and helping the teams I'm working with to skill up and implement.I've done this in a mix of individual contributor and leadership roles. There are good challenging problems to solve in both, and I enjoy solving them with teams either in more of a management role or directly.Some of the things that bring me joy include:* writing beautiful code that is high quality, well tested and meets requirements.* finding the tweak to a bit of code or architecture to greatly increase performance (a better data structure or algorithm, find the index/change to sql to make a query better, working out some appropriate caching).* helping a direct report succeed* seeing a direct report/mentee learn grow and do awesome work.* growing and nuturing teams* leading change to refactor an organisation to match a target stateSpecialties: Ethereum, Solidity, JavaScript, Ruby, Java, AWS, agile methodologies, startups, databases(SQL/NoSQL).

Rob Dawson's Current Company Details
Consensys

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Chief Technology Officer at Consensys
Rob Dawson Work Experience Details
  • Consensys
    Chief Technology Officer
    Consensys May 2020 - Present
    Fort Worth, Texas, Us
    In 2020 some of the great parts of Consensys came together to work more closely together. I stepped in to help with this as the CTO across the organization. In this role I've been helping the teams come together and find the right ways to win together. This has involved things like API guidelines, leaning in to support team topologies, and setting up appropriate forums for the right technical people to work together. I was also involved in specific technical roles, collaborating to support the launch of Palm NFT Studios and the Palm Network. I've also been deeply involved with the efforts to ensure we are building the best tools for developers.As the team at Consensys has successfully been winning as a group, I'm building a successful OCTO (Office of the CTO), focussed on building the foundational technology required for Consensys to deliver on its mission and vision.
  • Consensys
    Product Lead
    Consensys Feb 2018 - May 2020
    Fort Worth, Texas, Us
    I led the product organization for PegaSys. Taking on this role, growing out the product management team, to support the technical team which grew from 8 engineers to 30. I hired and interviewed product managers, set product direction and led the team. We built and delivered the Enterprise grade ethereum client, besu.
  • Consensys
    Techncial Lead
    Consensys Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
    Fort Worth, Texas, Us
    I joined Consensys in the protocols group (PegaSys) as a technical lead for a scrum team.We we focussed on enterprise ethereum and use of the quorum client. We implemented a private transaction manager in Java(Orion), and performed other enterprise related work, ensuring that enterprises could use ethereum based technologies.
  • Flexa Estimates
    Technology Advisor And Developer
    Flexa Estimates Mar 2011 - Present
    Leading the product development and early stage design for the flexa Estimates software product. Involved in all technical product aspects of the company, from coding in JavaScript and Ruby, to architectural decisions, to product and business workshops.
  • Rojotek
    Contract Software Developer
    Rojotek May 2016 - Dec 2017
    At RojoTek I build software solutions for a variety of clients, help startups get started with their products, and putting my money where my mouth is, building a solution to help Occupational Therapists. I'm continuing my passion for building usable web-based software solutions, using the right technology for the job.I utilise Agile and Lean techniques for building software, which gets deployed to the cloud. I do this while having fun, utilising my important skill of 'Laughs like the Count'.My current technologies focus around Ruby, JavaScript, and PostgreSQL, with related variants. In addition to this stack, I've been doing some significant work with Serverless Architectures, building applications that are deployed to Amazon and Google NodeJS based serverless environments(Lambda/APIGateway and Google Cloud Functions).Apart from software development, leading projects and building APIs, some of elements of interest in my contracting time have been implementing an OAuth based authentication gateway, and working on the Australian HL7 FHIR for Provider Directory Services standard.In my spare time I've had opportunity to give guest lectures at Griffith and QUT talking about Ruby/Ruby on Rails, and I present at various local user groups. For fun I've been reading up and listening to information about Merkle trees, and all things blockchain. It has been great to think about the beauty and potential of the blockchain for all sorts of interesting computer verifiable transactions.
  • Ephox
    Contract Software Developer
    Ephox Jul 2012 - Jul 2016
    Palo Alto, Ca, Us
    Part time contract developer to Ephox.Ruby on Rails and JavaScript development along with some SCALA for good measure.Involved in development of new features, bug fixing, and all the good stuff. Helping do what I can to keep existing products working, and building new products.
  • Ephox
    Director Of Engineering Innovation
    Ephox Dec 2010 - Jul 2012
    Palo Alto, Ca, Us
    In December 2010 I was promoted to a Director Role at Ephox, taking on a mix of people management and technical leadership. The role has involved building strong technical relationships with partners, reviewing technical purchases, and leading development. The technical details have moved from almost straight JavaScript with TinyMCE (utilising some server backend tech), to building cutting edge rich web apps using JavaScript, Java and Ruby with the suitable mix of additional buzzwords. I'm responsible for all levels of the product development, helping to design and code all layers in the architecture and getting involved with setting the direction and planning.
  • Ephox
    Lead Engineer
    Ephox Jan 2007 - Dec 2010
    Palo Alto, Ca, Us
    I led a number of various scaled teams and projects at Ephox, including building plugins and innovative features for the core EditLive! editor, and leading new product directions.I led the development of the WebRadar 2.0 project at Ephox, a complete redevelopment of WebRadar. In this work I led and grew the team.The majority of the Lead Engineer work at Ephox has been Java based, and has also involved extensive JavaScript work.
  • Yourtutor
    Software Engineer
    Yourtutor Jul 2014 - Apr 2016
    Software Engineer, working remotely with a great team of people building the technology to support yourtutor. yourtutor is a web based application for providing 1-to-1 online tutoring. I'm one of the software guys here, using a great Ruby on Rails based stack to make this happen.Apart from standard Ruby work, there were interesting parts in JavaScript, some Swift, and some interesting use of Postgres.
  • Monicit
    Technical Lead
    Monicit Jan 2014 - Jul 2014
    Au
    Technical Lead for a team building a cutting edge SAAS solution, using Ruby on Rails, HTML, and JavaScript with a touch of mobile (Andriod + iOS).
  • Lmax Exchange
    Senior Developer
    Lmax Exchange Apr 2013 - Jan 2014
    London, Gb
    High performance, low latency Java development, building the LMAX exchange. Using my Java experience and bringing some JavaScript skills for front-end development.
  • Rsa The Security Division Of Emc
    Contract Software Engineer
    Rsa The Security Division Of Emc Jul 2012 - Jan 2013
    Burlington, Massachusetts, Us
    Helping build some great new Security products at RSA using Ruby and JRuby. A great mix of some of my favourite things in technology, a really technical position, and mentoring work. The role involves leading the development for a key component of a SAAS/Virtual Appliance, including taking responsibility for architecture, design and development, and leading a team of 5 through the implementation.
  • M2D2
    Technology Advisor And Back-End Coder
    M2D2 May 2011 - May 2012
    Advising the excellent team at M2D2 on server side technologies and helping build a MVP for their next product. Writing Ruby code, experimenting with Ruby APIs and reviewing and recommending NoSQL database platforms.Drinking coffee and having fun with some great guys.
  • Omnieffect
    It Consultant
    Omnieffect Jul 2006 - Jan 2007
    IT Consultant focused on delivering business solutions. Willing to be technology agnostic in working to deliver the right system.In my consulting work, I have a focus on Rich Internet Applications, leveraging existing infrastructure to deliver integrated solutions.
  • Growthbase
    Developer/Team Lead/Architect
    Growthbase Feb 2005 - Jun 2006
    I had the pleasure of building some great software with the people at Growthbase. I was involved in a number of projects, using technologies such as Ruby on Rails (0.12), Java, PHP, and ASP (don't mention the ASP). The work was a mixture of contracting work for internal systems, and product development.
  • Qut
    Computer Programmer And Security Consultant
    Qut Jun 2004 - Jun 2006
    Java Software development of a Risk Management tool, and performing security audits.
  • Bnp Paribas
    Senior Programmer Analyst/App Dba
    Bnp Paribas Jan 2003 - Mar 2004
    Paris, Fr
    DBA responsible for maintaining and building the development Oracle databases. Also one of the senior developers in a project that started Agile before going to a true XP. Had fun pair programming and building an application that meet customers needs.The programming work was done using Java, using the IBM WebSphere AppServer.
  • Ubs Warburg
    Senior Programmer Analyst/App Dba
    Ubs Warburg Nov 2001 - Jan 2003
    Zurich, Ch
    Built a Oracle and Java application for opening new accounts. I was the buildmaster, DBA, WebSphere guy. In my spare time I was involved in writing Java code from front to back, and involved in Design tasks. This was on a team that ranged in size from 3 to 8.
  • Citr
    Senior Programmer Analyst/App Dba
    Citr Apr 2001 - Oct 2001
    I was the main programmer for a project with Telstra, and was also involved in doing DBA work for the project, and troubleshooting other projects Oracle problems. I was responsible for all parts of the software development, from architectural decisions to build tasks to customer interaction and requirements gathering.
  • Oracle Corporation
    Programmer Analyst/App Dba
    Oracle Corporation Jul 2000 - Apr 2001
    Austin, Texas, Us
    Application DBA and programmer for a web project. I was involved in designing and all aspects of building this project. In particular I was responsible for the database, and model of the system.
  • Ibm Gsa
    Programmer Analyst/App Dba
    Ibm Gsa 1999 - Jul 2000
    Armonk, New York, Ny, Us
    Design and development work, working in Oracle Forms, and Oracle Databases.
  • Vrt Systems
    Oracle Specialist
    Vrt Systems 1999 - 1999
    Milton, Queensland, Au
    Oracle Forms and Database development of a Client Server WeighBridge system.

Rob Dawson Skills

Agile Methodologies Java Ruby Javascript Ruby On Rails Software Development Rest Html Test Driven Development Open Source Laughs Like The Count Ethereum Programming Software Engineering Smart Contracts Blockchain Distributed Ledger Web Development Websphere Saas Git Databases Architecture Solidity Team Leadership Tomcat Html 5 Rspec Architectures Objective C System Architecture Application Architecture Oracle Java Enterprise Edition Jquery Mysql Tdd Software Design Apache Ajax Jee Hibernate Agile Mentoring Postgresql Bdd Continuous Integration Html5

Rob Dawson Education Details

  • Qut (Queensland University Of Technology)
    Qut (Queensland University Of Technology)
    Information Security

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