Brad Woods
Senior Front-end Engineer at Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBrad Woods is a Senior Front-end Engineer based in Sydney with nine years of experience building polished, production-grade web interfaces and component libraries. He has progressed from founding and bootstrapping early startups and developer meetups to shipping large-scale front-end systems at Canva, bringing a strong product sensibility alongside technical craft. His background spans React ecosystems, design-first component work, complex data visualisations and state machines (XState), and full-stack experience on serverless/AWS platforms from earlier projects. Brad has a knack for turning prototypes into funded products—BuildBee spun out after his design and engineering work—and for improving developer experience through Storybook, testing and shared libraries. Comfortable leading small teams, he has also held technical lead responsibilities and organised community meetups, showing both leadership and grassroots developer engagement. He pairs a teaching background and mechatronics training with pragmatic front-end engineering, which gives him an uncommon blend of communication, systems thinking and hands-on implementation.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Education - Primary, Bachelor of Education - Primary at University of Wollongong
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Github Skills (135)
audiocontext10
react-spring10
interpreter10
state-machine10
orchestration10
javascript10
animation10
scxml10
typescript10
statechart10
fsm10
react-wrapper10
visualizer10
state-management10
react10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
siligong-valley/siligong-js-runbook
Sep 2019 - Jun 2021
Siligong Valley JS Meetup Runbook
Contributions:55 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 1 year 8 months
runbookjavascriptvalley
bradwoods/boilerplate-nextjs-typography
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:27 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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