Matilda Dawson

Overview

18 years in software engineering, the last 2 at Prism Labs, where I lead the developer experience team. Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 709ms to 83ms. Most at home with CLI design and compilers. Big believer in written communication.

Replies on weekday evenings

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Apr 2025 - Present
   Prism Labs · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Birmingham, UK
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 21 minutes to under 3.
   • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 35 a week to 2.
   • Led the migration of 18 services to TypeScript.
2. Staff Software Engineer

   Dec 2021 - Apr 2025
   Intercom · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Birmingham, UK
   • Shipped 10 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
3. Software Engineer

   Jun 2020 - Dec 2021
   ASOS · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Birmingham, UK
   • Shipped 10 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
   • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 36 a week to 4.
4. Engineering Manager

   Nov 2018 - Jun 2020
   Revolut · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Birmingham, UK
   • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 25 a week to 3.
   • Wrote the CLI design service that now handles 60 million requests a day.
5. Senior Software Engineer

   Feb 2016 - Nov 2018
   Indeed · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Birmingham, UK
   • Led the migration of 36 services to TypeScript.
   • Shipped 26 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.

Projects

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Education

1. University of Warwick

   BSc, Mathematics
   2005 - 2008