Summary
Robert Dawson is a Senior Full Stack Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of focused experience building accessible, high-performance web platforms for enterprise and government. He combines a design-minded BFA and advanced web nanodegrees with hands-on expertise in React, CI/CD, Elasticsearch, and DevSecOps to deliver measurable results like a 39% faster page load and 75% faster content publishing for FRBSF.org. At the Federal Reserve Bank he led frontend teams, shipped the system’s first PWA, automated testing with Cypress to cut QA time by 75%, and drove migrations that removed third-party dependencies. He also contributed to Oracle’s Data Safe dashboard, balancing complex asynchronous UIs for global customers with security and compliance needs. Known for pragmatic automation—such as asset cache-clearing and content workflow tooling—he blends UX sensibility with operational rigor to turn policy and accessibility requirements into user-friendly, auditable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Google UX Design Professional Certificate: Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design, Google UX Design Professional Certificate: Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design at Coursera
MA, Multimedia, MA, Multimedia at California State University-East Bay
Front-End Web Developer Nanodegree, Front-End Web Developer Nanodegree at Udacity
BFA, Graphic Design, BFA, Graphic Design at Memphis College of Art