Hi, I'm
Ash Dawson
Senior Software Engineer & Technical Lead
15+ years architecting scalable systems with Go, PHP & JavaScript. Currently at SOCi, building enterprise SaaS serving 50,000+ locations. Pioneering AI-enhanced development workflows.
AI-Enhanced Dev
SteamForge
Desktop Achievement Manager for Steam
Cross-platform desktop app with native Steamworks SDK integration via cgo, concurrent data pipelines for 800+ game libraries, and a SQLite caching layer for sub-200ms load times. Compiles to a single ~10MB native binary.
ratkill.gg
Gaming Dev Hub
Notable Clients & Platforms
Senior Software Engineer
SOCi, Inc.
50,000+ location platform. 40% API response-time improvement.
Frontend Tech Lead
Tipple
Led monolith-to-microservices migration. Optimised API response times.
Senior Developer
fatfish creative
Mercedes-Benz systems handling 1,000+ concurrent users.
Full Timeline
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Senior Software Engineer — SOCi, Inc.
Led full-stack architecture across a 50,000+ location enterprise SaaS platform. Delivered 40% API response-time improvement on high-impact Listings feature. Pioneered AI-enhanced workflows with Claude Code, Cursor, and Augment. Mentored junior engineers via mob programming.
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Software Engineer — SOCi, Inc.
Built ad publishing pipeline for Facebook & Google, enabling multi-platform campaign management across thousands of locations. Grew rapidly through mob programming practices.
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Frontend Tech Lead — Tipple Alcohol Delivery
Led monolith-to-microservices migration, reducing deploy complexity and improving release velocity. Managed AWS infrastructure (EC2, ECS, Lambda). Optimised DB queries, slashing API response times. React.js frontend with Selenium & Jest test coverage.
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Senior Digital Developer — Tipple Alcohol Delivery
Full-stack development of the Tipple e-commerce platform serving on-demand alcohol delivery across Australia.
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Senior Developer — fatfish creative
Built drag-and-drop form builder and registration systems for Mercedes-Benz Australia, handling 1,000+ concurrent users on AWS. Laravel, JavaScript, MySQL.
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Junior Web Developer — Furphy Media
Campaign micro sites for Honda Australia reaching national audiences. CodeIgniter, AngularJS, Backbone, Node.js.
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Junior Web Developer — fauvdesign
WordPress, Drupal, Joomla CMS development. On-page SEO. Clients include Bayside Church and Capital Air.
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Junior Web Developer — Allardice Group
~3 websites per week. Twig, Symfony, CodeIgniter. Client training & documentation.
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Intern — Medtech Global
Healthcare patient management web app. Native Android app with Bluetooth & multi-threading. C#, ASP.NET, Java.
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Owner & Freelance Developer
Bespoke solutions ranging from WordPress to custom PHP apps with Symfony. Slack bots, Swagger API generation, Datadog & Sentry monitoring integrations.
Tech Stack
Let's Connect
Seeking Staff or Principal-level roles in distributed systems, AI infrastructure, or developer tooling at scale. Open to conversations.
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