Dexter Edwards
Director at Career Break
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDexter Edwards is a senior software engineer based in the UK with about a decade of hands-on experience building frontends for finance and crypto products. He has deep domain expertise across crypto tooling—governance, wallets, explorers, dApps, Tendermint, mining, pools and SDKs—and has led engineering teams at Vega Protocol and a Solana lending protocol. Dexter combines an Integrated Masters in Mathematics with practical trading and finance UI experience, enabling him to translate complex financial and mathematical requirements into intuitive, production-grade interfaces. He’s spent years owning client applications and night-time director-level side projects, demonstrating both leadership and an appetite for entrepreneurship. Comfortable moving between delivery and technical strategy, he’s known for shipping robust, user-focused frontend systems in high-stakes crypto environments.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Highcliffe SchoolIntegrated Masters MMath, Integrated Masters MMath at University of ReadingBrockenhurst College
Github Skills (53)
crypto-wallet10
vega10
purescript10
shared10
ethereum10
monorepo10
smart-contracts10
nx-monorepo10
javascript9
desktop-application9
ember9
nodejs9
emberjs9
javascript-framework9
http-client8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
vegaprotocol/token-frontend
Jul 2021 - Jul 2022
dApp for interacting with Vega Ethereum smart contracts, eg. vesting tranches and claim codes
Contributions:4 releases, 212 reviews, 1993 commits in 11 months
ethereumsmart-contractsvega-protocol
vegaprotocol/js-protos
Jan 2024 - Nov 2024
Protocol Buffer messages for Vega in Javascript
Contributions:3 reviews, 40 PRs, 107 pushes in 10 months
javascriptprotocol-buffers
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