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.
