Summary
Alex Danilevsky is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years in enterprise IT and nine years focused on hands-on backend development, currently building scalable services at Canva. He transitioned from project management and Scrum Master roles into engineering in 2018, bringing rare cross-functional empathy and a knack for aligning technical solutions with business outcomes. His recent work spans data warehouse ETL, integration services, containerisation, and infrastructure automation using Terraform, AWS (ECS, Lambdas, Aurora), Kotlin, Spring and Node.js. At NAB he led a greenfield API Gateway effort and drove OAuth/OIDC integrations, reflecting a strong API-first and security-aware mindset. Having lived and worked across continents—from NYC to Sydney—and paused to travel and volunteer in Latin America and Asia, he combines global perspective with pragmatic delivery. Colleagues rely on him to introduce new patterns via PoCs and to translate operational needs into robust, production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience