Senior Full-stack Developer, Founding Engineer

Founding engineer. Full-stack, zero to one. I build the systems, structure, and foundation your team scales on.
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Status
Actively looking
Not looking
Not looking
Open to new opportunities
Location
Perth
-
Open to relocating
Commitment
Full-time, Casual / Contract / Part-time, Join as a startup co-founder
Availability from time of offer
Immediately
Development experience
7+ years
Top 3 languages or frameworks
TypeScript, Python, Java
Also knows
Django, Spring, AWS, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, RabbitMQ, Next.js
Preferred work environment
Hybrid, Fully remote, In the office
Strengths
My key strength is being able to build end-to-end, frontend, backend, CI/CD, infrastructure from zero. I wear multiple hats and at an early stage I can replace an entire team of developers. I've done it across multiple companies and at serious scale. At Canva, I've shipped backend systems serving 170 million users. At Nextspace, I built an ML system that directly landed a multimillion-dollar contract. And as a Founding Engineer at Smart Machine Company, I bootstrapped an entire robotics platform from scratch. I don't just write code, I deliver outcomes.
Interested in working involving
Ideally Founding Engineer positions or the first employee where I'm building the engineering function from scratch at early-stage startups. I would also consider a bigger companies, depending on the project.
Not interested in work involving

Other information
Able to work in Australia without visa sponsorship
Requires visa sponsorship to work in Australia

Pay expectations

Full-time
$
200000
per year
Casual / Contract
$
100
per hour
Pay is negotiable in exchange for equity
Pay is negotiable in exchange for equity
Pay is not negotiable in exchange for equity
Open to volunteering or working for equity only
Not interested in volunteering or working for equity only if joining as a co-founder

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Work experience

Proudest professional achievement
I identified a high-severity bug on the Canva platform that was silently affecting 1.3 million users. Once I spotted it, I moved quickly to diagnose the root cause, implemented a fix, and restored platform reliability before it could cause further disruption to users' workflows. It was one of those moments where the scale of the impact really hit me, knowing that over a million people were unblocked because of that fix was genuinely satisfying.

Design and collaboration software company – Backend Engineer, Brand Identity Team
(Sydney, AU | 2022–Present)
I've been building enterprise-scale features at a design and collaboration unicorn, with highlights including an ACL framework, audit log system for 100k+ enterprise users, and an async file-copy workflow. I've also fixed a high-severity bug affecting 1.3M users, cut deployment times by 25%, and contributed to initiatives tied to 300M+ in revenue.

Digital Twin platform company – Software Engineer, Core Platform Team
(Auckland, NZ | 2021–2022)
Worked on a Digital Twin platform, designing microservices architecture, building a real-time collaboration system that saved $50k/year in infrastructure, creating a message broker, and developing an ML-based road sign recognition system that helped land a multimillion-dollar contract.

Robotics and autonomous systems company – Founding Engineer
(Blenheim, NZ | 2018–2021)
Early-stage robotics work: built a robot management app from scratch, developed on-vehicle LIDAR software for obstacle detection, and implemented remote control capabilities for autonomous systems.

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