Xavier Lamar Dawson

Senior Full-Stack Engineer at Wayfair · Growth engineering · TypeScript, React

Wayfair

Minneapolis, MN · CT (UTC-6)

4+ years experience

Purdue University

English, Arabic

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4 years in software engineering, the last 4 at Wayfair, where I work on the growth team. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 17 minutes to under 5.

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experimentationPostgreSQLReactanalyticsNode.jsTypeScript

Experience

Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Oct 2022 - Present
Wayfair · 4 yr · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
- Brought on-call pages for growth down from 17 a week to 2.
- Reduced cloud spend on growth by 19% in two quarters.
- Moved 67% of growth traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Open-source experimentation toolkit

2024

A small library for growth engineering that 376 developers star on GitHub.

Conference talk: lessons from growth

2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling growth engineering.

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Education

Purdue University
BS, Electrical Engineering
2017 - 2021

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