Aaron John-baptiste
Staff Frontend Engineer at Canva
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron John-baptiste is a Staff Frontend Engineer based in London with over a decade of experience building user-focused web platforms and front-end architecture. He led front-end strategy and reusable component systems at Aviva, rebuilt Tumblr’s React post editor from the ground up, and now contributes to charts at Canva while exploring health tech and AI products. Known for turning legacy codebases into maintainable, accessible, and SEO-optimized interfaces, he combines product sensitivity with strong engineering discipline and test automation. Aaron is proactive in shaping product vision through metrics and user feedback and has a history of mentoring teams and hiring to scale front-end capability. He’s currently building a unique AI-powered multiplayer game, reflecting a persistent interest in gamification and interactive user experiences. Trained with an MEng in Computer Science from the University of Warwick, he blends academic rigor with practical, cross-domain engineering.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Computer Science, First, MEng, Computer Science, First at University of Warwick
Github Skills (48)
wordpress10
post-processing10
summernote10
wordpress-plugin10
resharper10
plugin9
rider9
wysiwyg9
auto-discovery9
effects8
gutenberg8
unity-editor8
jetbrains8
javascript8
resharper-plugin8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aaronjbaptiste/gravityapple
Oct 2013 - Jun 2015
Contributions:52 commits, 33 pushes in 1 year 8 months
aaronjbaptiste/dotfiles
Jan 2023 - Oct 2025
Contributions:53 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 9 months
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