Summary
David Dawson is a founder and hybrid full-stack/product leader with 11 years of professional experience building web products and architecting systems for consumer and enterprise businesses. He has co-founded multiple startups—most recently MarkOS and Ridwell—where he led engineering, product development, and technical strategy from idea through growth. Comfortable shipping across front-end, back-end and infrastructure, he pairs hands-on coding roots (starting with HTML and Perl in the late ’90s) with systems-level architecture and customer-focused product thinking. David has held engineering roles at Zillow, Amazon and various startups, and also consults on web products that improve customer experience and operational efficiency. Now focused on AI and enterprise tooling, he’s actively recruiting experienced engineers to scale his latest venture and prefers solving hard problems by learning new technologies quickly. An early web tinkerer turned startup operator, he brings entrepreneurial grit and pragmatic technical depth to product-led engineering.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Washington