Currently leading the Browse Experience team working on Canva's Templates Marketplace, enabling millions of users to begin designing every day.

• Led the development of a new search experience, pivoting the team's focus to launch a new unified search platform in time for millions of users to use following a major public launch. A major part of this project was the development of a new, scalable Backend-For-Frontend (BFF), allowing for both Frontend and Backend to evolve in parallel without blocking each other.
• Lead the development of a new Templates landing page, moving away from a complex to discern and static presentation of Canva's extensive template library to a personalised and simplified homepage experience.
• Re-prioritised team's focus using data-driven insights by developing and circulating comprehensive analyses connecting project investment to usage and engagement metrics, directly influencing leadership decisions to reduce or sunset lower-impact initiatives. In one case this led to a 50% increase in team capacity, which was able to be directed to higher priority projects.
• Directly managed up to 6 engineers, facilitating their achievement of key goals, growing them into new opportunities, and successfully supporting promotion milestones.
• Led technical problem-solving and incident response, often acting as the technical lead for high-severity incidents. This has has required rapid understanding of both impact and root cause to identify the best course of action; and then collaboration with other technical teams across the business to mitigate and resolve the problem.

• Owned Canva's Typescript, NodeJS and Java-based Server-Side Rendering (SSR) stack, leading a number of improvements around performance, observability and reliability. Led several architectural changes to the SSR stack, including:
  • A company-wide initiative (changing the behaviour of 500+ frontend engineers) to move away from Web APIs in server renders
  • Moving the bespoke SSR stack to Bazel-based builds, enabling more robust and reproducible deployments inline with the rest of the Canva stack
  • Proposing a modernisation of the server-side rendering flow using the latest in React developments
• Introduced an interactive component library using Storybook for the Group's frontend components, allowing non-technical stakeholders to easily understand what UI features are available when creating new experiences.

Working as a consultant solving business problems for a number of customers.

• Updating and maintaining a coronavirus web dashboard for the Australian federal government
• Transforming an out of date and non-performant AngularJS/.NET based web form to a React/GraphQL based incident management system for an electricity regulator
• Creating a native iOS application for creating and maintaining bookings within an events space. Using SwiftUI and Google Firebase functions

• Ongoing maintenance of a Xamarin iOS mobile application with a .NET Framework back end which enables sales people to place orders for customers remotely. This includes constant communication with the client to determine and understand new requirements, as well as responding to changing business requirements.
• A web application for scheduling which reduced time spent allocating resources within the team from 3 days to 3 hours a month. I was involved from project conception through an iterative development process taking on feedback from key users until delivery. We used C# & ASP.NET for the back end, and React+Redux for the interactive UI.
• A web application for managing the individual skills of consultants across Telstra Purple. The tool allows workforce planners to identify and more confidently place consultants onto different gigs given their skillsets. From the beginning of the project I was involved, being part of the core team to build, iterate and maintain the site. It is written with Angular, ngrx and a .NET Core backend.