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.
12 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 (19)
plugin10
grpc-web9
twirp8
grpc-node8
overlays7
enums7
code-generation7
dataloader7
protobuf7
grpc6
typescript6
generator6
foundry6
nestjs6
designer5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Toofifty/rl-goal-tracker
Mar 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:4 reviews, 5 pushes, 2 tags in 2 years 10 months
Toofifty/p5
Oct 2014 - Nov 2018
Contributions:24 commits, 19 pushes in 4 years 1 month
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