About

  • Name: Jamie Dawson
  • Phone: (706) 386-4137
  • City: Fremont, CA
  • Email: jamierobertdawson@gmail.com

Interests

Full-stack developer

React

Node.js

Firebase and MongoDB

Creating educational content

Data Structures

Algorithms

Video and Image optimization

Education

Software Developer bootcamp

Janurary 2019 - January 2020
Relevant Coursework
  • Data structures and algorithms
  • Full-stack development
  • Peer-to-peer learning

Online Certification

Master the Coding Interview:
Data Structures + Algorithms

Experience

imgix

September 2021 - January 2023

Frontend Engineer

  • Created 85 unique React apps connected to the imgix API to optimize images from AWS S3 buckets for responsive web design and attended 95 tech calls for customers to raise $418,000 in sales.
  • Built React app demos for 3 conferences to optimize HLS video streaming, images pulled from OpenSea NFT API, and presented demo at conference showing how to use the imgix JavaScript SDK for fetching images.
  • Taught imgix API with TheMovieDatabase API using Node.js and created a video tutorial for Youtube.
  • Reduced time to create customer demos from 1hr to 5 mins by creating a template in React.

Alan AI

March 2021 - July 2021

Customer Success Engineer

  • Contributed JavaScript code to Conversation Design Institute course for helping devs build voice apps.
  • Managed community Slack channel and support email to address developer inquiries and help customers integrate Alan AI. Created a JavaScript app for a customer website to connect with Alan AI API.

Nimbella

Febuary 2020 - March 2021

Developer Relations Advocate

  • Headed creation of the Nimbella Serverless Developer Guide written for Python and Node.js.
  • Increased new customers by hosting 2 hackathons and 8 online conferences for serverless technology.
  • Created 12 video tutorials and authored 8 app-building blogs in JavaScript for our serverless technology.

Viv Labs

November 2019 - January 2020

Software Developer Intern

  • Created a JavaScript app to teach internal developers how to incorporate OAUTH2 to the Bixby platform.
  • Reviewed 300+ Bixby apps built with JavaScript and helped update the Developer roadmap for future tutorials.

Samsung

May 2019 - November 2019

Software Engineer Intern

  • Collaborated with 4 external developers and helped launch 8 Bixby apps to the Bixby Marketplace.
  • Reviewed 100+ Bixby apps and provided documentation with easy-to-understand JavaScript solutions.
  • Created blog posts and video tutorials for Bixby developers.
  • Created the Drinkypedia Bixby app with JavaScript and TheCocktailDB API.

Code For Fun

January 2019 - January 2020

Computer Science Instructor

  • Teaching students from kindergarten through 12th grade the fundamentals of computer science.
  • Hosted 13 school events and taught 500+ kids the fundamentals of computer science.
  • Ran weekly classes where I taught 10 students Python fundamentals.
  • Created Python curriculum for students, such as designing houses and landscapes with python turtle and mapping custom XY graphs to create original art.

Student / Student Ambassador

Febuary 2018 - January 2020

Computer Science Instructor

  • Created a voice-controlled project using CMU Sphinx that runs commands designed in C and JavaScript.
  • Implemented a unique take on the Insertion Sort algorithm for a stack-based project with time complexity restrictions in the C programming language.
  • Completed a max flow algorithm project using C and the Edmonds–Karp algorithm that requires students to solve an unknown amount of paths from 9000+ nodes.
  • Performed weekly timed C coding challenges based on LeetCode questions, solving complex problems with no access to the internet or other resources.
  • Designed a custom e-commerce website in a two-day PHP coding challenge.
  • Hosted weekly meet-ups teaching computer science concepts. Studied data structures and algorithms using medium-level LeetCode questions written in C.

Projects

  • All
  • VOICE AI
  • Project

Crown Clothing - clothing store built in React

Crown Clothing - clothing
store built in React

Note taking app built in TypeScript

Note taking app built
in TypeScript

Search Bar using imgix Management API

Search Bar using imgix Management API

CropperJS and srcset generation with imgix images

CropperJS and srcset
generation with imgix images

HLS videos with VideoJS Suggested Video Endcap

HLS videos with VideoJS
Suggested Video Endcap

DrinkyPedia - A Samsung Bixby voice app

DrinkyPedia - A Samsung
Bixby voice app

Awesome Dog - A Samsung Bixby voice app

Awesome Dog - A Samsung
Bixby voice app

Skills

Languages

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Frameworks and Libraries

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Tools

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Databases

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Videos

Binary Tree Right Side View - LeetCode 199 - (BFS)

Binary Search - Gotta Catch 'Em All-go-rithms

Using react-imgix with TMDB API

Build a Serverless Slack app using Nimbella

Intro to the Nimbella Serverless Cloud

Build a serverless Slack Application with Nimbella

Cloud Novice to Cloud Native Lesson #1

Cloud Novice to Cloud Native Lesson #2

Serverless and API Conference

The 3 Hours of React Conference

3 hours of Serverless Conference

3 hours of Jamstack Conference

Bixby tutorial: Bixby for Beginners

Samsung Bixby Internship video

Bix Mix Demo - An app for the Samsung Bixby Hackathon

Contact

My Address

Fremont, CA

Social Profiles

Email

jamierobertdawson@gmail.com

Contact

(706) 386-4137