Olivia Dawson

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Engineering Manager at Mosaic Commerce · Embedded systems · hardware bring-up, C

Mosaic Commerce
Sydney, Australia · AEST (UTC+10)
13+ years experience
UNSW Sydney
English
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Overview

13 years in software engineering, the last 3 at Mosaic Commerce, where I lead the firmware team. Moved 82% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Before that: PropertyGuru and Woolworths Group. Most at home with idempotency and hardware bring-up.

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  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Working sessions on ARM Cortex-M
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Skills
idempotencyCBluetooth LERTOSARM Cortex-Membedded Linuxhardware bring-up

Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Jul 2023 - Present
    Mosaic Commerce · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
    • Led the migration of 33 services to ARM Cortex-M.
    • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 34% in two quarters.
    • Wrote the RTOS service that now handles 38 million requests a day.
  2. Embedded Engineer
    May 2020 - Jul 2023
    PropertyGuru · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
    • Brought on-call pages for firmware down from 20 a week to 3.
  3. Embedded Engineer
    Mar 2017 - May 2020
    Woolworths Group · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
    • Shipped 7 launches on the firmware team without a rollback.
  4. Embedded Engineer
    Jun 2014 - Nov 2016
    Toyota · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
    • Shipped 30 launches on the firmware team without a rollback.
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 806ms to 165ms.
  5. Embedded Engineer
    Oct 2013 - Jun 2014
    Atlassian · 8 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
    • Shipped 16 launches on the firmware team without a rollback.

Projects

Write-up: embedded systems in practice
2025

A long-form guide to embedded systems for people starting out.

Conference talk: lessons from firmware
2024

What went wrong and what worked while scaling embedded systems.

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Education

  1. UNSW Sydney
    BEng, Mathematics
    2009 - 2013

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