Dan Him
Senior Frontend Engineer at Canva
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolDan Him is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in Melbourne with a decade of experience building user-focused web products and leading teams through growth and replatforming. He currently contributes to Canva’s front-end efforts after scaling marketing and SEO-led initiatives at Wise, where his teams drove a 250% attributed user growth and rebranded thousands of pages behind a single feature flag. Comfortable hands-on with React, Next.js and modern frontend tooling, Dan has a track record of modernising marketing CMSes, launching new products, and creating shared frontend libraries and guilds. He pairs practical leadership — managing and promoting engineers, running workshops, and splitting teams for new domains — with day-to-day coding and testing discipline. Earlier agency and nonprofit roles show a long-standing interest in ethical design, accessibility and teaching, including training 1,500 volunteers on new systems while serving as CIO for AIESEC Germany. He blends product-minded front-end craft with operational experience in SEO, CMS migrations and cross-functional delivery.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree BS Informatics BA Linguistics, Bachelor’s Degree BS Informatics BA Linguistics at University of WashingtonDiploma General Education, Diploma General Education at Meadowdale High School
English
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Github Skills (74)
currency10
neptune10
testing9
flags9
monorepo8
datepicker8
firefox8
api8
datetimepicker8
chrome8
chrome-extension8
datetime7
rehype7
locale7
bundle7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
danlaush/danlaush-website-2021
Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:40 commits, 48 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
danlaush/twitch-wall
Jun 2018 - Jan 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
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