Ben Wells
Frontend Software Engineer at Canva
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Wells is a frontend software engineer with 13 years of experience who balances hands-on engineering with people leadership, currently building at Canva after a recent lead role at Digivizer. His decade-plus tenure at Google included managing large teams and contributing to Chrome and ChromeOS projects that pushed the web as an app platform—from PWAs and permissions to the Crostini Linux integration and Files app. Comfortable both writing code and running teams, Ben gravitates toward solving meaningful, user-focused problems that simplify complex technical workflows. He has repeatedly taken deep technical challenges (from VHDL and firmware to cloud tooling at Altium) and turned them into elegant, usable products. Based in Greater Sydney, he prefers roles that keep him close to the technology and shipping fast while mentoring others. A practical polyglot of system-level and frontend domains, he brings rare breadth across embedded, desktop, and web platform engineering.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
Github Skills (29)
chrome-extension10
chrome10
javascript9
browser9
web-application7
disable7
manifest7
mechanism6
webapp6
image-editor6
api6
glossary5
meta5
interoperability5
sublime-text4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
benfredwells/loopdaloop
Jun 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:498 commits, 1 push in 1 year 5 months
benfredwells/betterPWAs
Oct 2024 - May 2026
Chrome Extension to inject improved web manifests to known sites
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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