Hugo Dawson

Overview

VP of Engineering at Pebble Robotics, focused on real-time systems. Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 514ms to 68ms. Most at home with WebSockets and Erlang/OTP.

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Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Aug 2023 - Present
   Pebble Robotics · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Moved 74% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 705ms to 85ms.
   • Built the experimentation framework 28 product teams use to ship changes safely.
2. Principal Engineer

   Apr 2020 - Jul 2023
   McKinsey & Company · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Sit on 6 boards.
   • Led or co-led 33 investments, 7 of them now at Series B or later.
3. Engineering Manager

   Apr 2018 - Apr 2020
   BT Group · 2 yr · Full-time · London, UK
   • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 309ms to 103ms.
   • Moved 85% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
4. Senior Software Engineer

   Nov 2015 - Apr 2018
   Goldman Sachs · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 761ms to 61ms.
   • Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 36% in two quarters.
5. Senior Software Engineer

   Feb 2012 - Nov 2015
   Booking.com · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · London, UK
   • Grew the real-time team from 3 to 14 engineers.
   • Wrote the Redis service that now handles 60 million requests a day.

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Education

1. University of Manchester

   BSc, Computer Engineering
   2004 - 2007