Chris Cook
Staff Software Engineer at Canva
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Cook is a Staff Software Engineer based in Greater Sydney with nine years of full-stack experience across frontend web and Node.js ecosystems. He has progressed through multiple senior and leadership roles at Canva, blending hands-on engineering, team management, and product-focused execution. As a founding engineer at CrowdRender he built and operated core platform features including accounts, payments, observability and analytics, demonstrating strong end-to-end ownership. Chris focuses on web APIs and improving collaboration between designers and developers, pairing design sensibility (Communication Design studies) with pragmatic engineering. He has experience shipping production web systems in high-growth consumer products and retail contexts, and brings a knack for turning design intent into maintainable, developer-friendly implementations. Based in Australia, he combines startup founder grit with scaled-platform experience at a major product company.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese Studies, Japanese Studies at University of TasmaniaHobart CollegeCommunication Design, Design, Communication Design, Design at Swinburne Online
English, Japanese
Github Skills (200)
plotly-dash10
python10
gtk10
rendering-3d-graphics10
flask10
javascript10
data-exploration10
data-engineering10
safari10
data-analytics10
data-viz10
browser10
superset10
compositing10
data-visualization10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Smilebags/p5.dimensions.js
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 76 commits, 18 PRs in 1 month
addondimensionalp5-jscalculations
Smilebags/web-audio-synth
Jul 2019 - Sep 2021
Contributions:262 commits, 127 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
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