Alex Matheson
Frontend Engineer at Canva
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
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Top SchoolAlex Matheson is a Frontend Engineer based in Greater Melbourne with 12 years of hands-on experience building user-focused web applications and end-to-end features. Currently at Canva after senior and team lead roles at Sidekicker, he blends front- and back-end fluency to ship polished, performant interfaces at scale. His background spans startups and agency work, giving him a pragmatic approach to product-driven engineering and cross-functional collaboration. Trained in computer software engineering at RMIT, he often pairs rapid prototyping instincts with attention to long-term maintainability. A detail-oriented developer, Alex has transitioned from mobile app freelancing to leading web engineering efforts, bringing both breadth and depth to frontend challenges.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering at RMIT University
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Github Skills (14)
plugin10
grpc-node8
grpc-web8
foundry8
twirp8
dataloader8
protobuf7
grpc7
typescript6
overlays6
nestjs6
usb4
react3
e-mail1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Toofifty/p5
Oct 2014 - Nov 2018
Contributions:24 commits, 19 pushes in 4 years 1 month
Toofifty/sudoku-setter
Jun 2020 - Feb 2024
A tool to help people set advanced Sudoku puzzles. Doubles as a Sudoku solver :)
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
sudoku-solverpythonsolversudokupuzzle
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