Benjamin Harding
Engineering Manager at Canva
Upper Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Harding is an Engineering Manager at Canva with 12 years of front-end-focused experience building customer-centred web products from Aotearoa. He progressed from game and web development roles into team leadership at Raygun and Canva, blending hands-on frontend engineering with people management and delivery ownership. Benjamin is skilled at turning complex UI problems into intuitive experiences and mentoring engineers while keeping product usability front-of-mind. Based in Upper Hutt, Wellington, he brings a practical teaching background and adult-education training to his leadership style, often pairing technical coaching with clear documentation and process improvements. Outside work he draws creative energy from gardening and running, which he credits for fresh perspectives on product challenges.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in Adult Education & Training Level 4, Certificate in Adult Education & Training Level 4 at Tai Poutini PolytechnicFirst Aid Level 2, First Aid Level 2 at St JohnDiploma of Web Development Level 6, Diploma of Web Development Level 6 at Natcoll Design School
Github Skills (59)
error-reporting10
javascript10
game-engine10
error-handler10
sneakers10
kiwi10
raygun10
browser10
user-tracking10
typescript10
sourcemaps10
desktop10
appstore10
typescript-definitions9
wordpress9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MindscapeHQ/raygun4js
Nov 2016 - Jan 2021
JavaScript provider for Raygun
Contributions:22 releases, 11 reviews, 237 commits in 4 years 2 months
raygunraygun4jssourcemapsbreadcrumbsstack-traces
gamelab/Save-Manager-Plugin
May 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 3 pushes, 2 tags in 11 months
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