Andy Stewart
Staff Engineer at Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolAndy Stewart is a Staff Engineer with 16 years' experience, currently shaping frontend and cross-stack solutions at Canva from Sydney. Grounded in an MSc in Computer Science and a BSc in Architecture, he blends design thinking with engineering discipline to solve hard technical problems by first understanding users and teams. His background spans frontend JavaScript plus practical work in Python, Java and Scala, and he’s comfortable choosing pragmatic tools from spreadsheets to full-stack systems to get outcomes shipped. Known for translating technical context for both teammates and management, he focuses on architectures that enable fast, sustainable team velocity. Outside core engineering he brings an entrepreneurial mindset from multiple founding roles, which shows up in a bias for practical, user-centered solutions.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Imperial College LondonFoundation Art & Architecture, Foundation Art & Architecture at CATS CambridgeBSc Architecture, BSc Architecture at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
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Github Skills (35)
react-dnd10
drag-and-drop10
autocomplete10
autosuggest10
typeahead9
drag9
react9
wai8
javascript7
jasmine6
flexbox6
react-redux-firebase6
apache-flex6
css6
websocket6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cleartext/ximpp
Oct 2009 - Jul 2011
Contributions:154 commits in 1 year 9 months
packetloop/react-autosuggest
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:15 pushes, 4 branches in 15 days
reactreact-autosuggestcompliantwaiwai-aria
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