Ben Aves
Senior Engineering Manager at Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolBen Aves is a senior engineering manager at Canva with 11 years of software engineering experience, now leading payments and fraud platform efforts to be localised, optimised, and performant at scale. He progressed at Canva from software engineer to senior engineering manager, blending hands-on delivery with team leadership and platform thinking. Previously he built a property management product from zero to production in six months as principal front-end engineer, establishing team culture, practices, and contributing to backend services. Comfortable across front-end and back-end concerns, Ben brings a physics background from the University of Sydney and a pragmatic focus on shipping reliable systems. Colleagues describe him as a builder who turns ambiguous problems into production-grade platforms while growing high-performing teams.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
HSC, HSC at NBSC Manly Selective CampusThe University of Sydney
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
ngrx-store10
typescript10
angular-cli10
cli10
angular10
typechecker9
ngrx-effects9
firebase9
angularfire8
lambda4
aws-lambda4
aws4
serverless-framework3
serverless3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bave8672/unwait
Feb 2020 - Jul 2023
Making promise-based APIs simpler and less verbose to work with.
Contributions:29 PRs, 30 pushes, 21 branches in 3 years 5 months
javascriptnodejsverboseasynctypescript
bave8672/leetcode
Nov 2018 - Jan 2021
Some leetcode solutions
Contributions:11 PRs, 49 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 2 months
data-structuresleetcode-solutionsleetcode
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