David Houweling
Senior Engineering Manager at Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolDavid Houweling is a senior engineering manager and former principal software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable server- and client-side applications, now leading engineering at Canva from Sydney. He is a full-stack practitioner whose bread-and-butter technologies include Node.js, TypeScript, React and modern web tooling, but who deliberately chooses the right tool for the job and happily jumps into front-end frameworks, APIs, or DevOps work. A pragmatic mentor and communicator, he pairs hands-on coding and architecture with clear documentation, user stories, and stakeholder-facing proposals to help teams ship delightful user experiences. David frames engineering like music—attention to individual parts and how they play together—which reflects his side interest in sound mixing and informs his emphasis on harmonious systems and developer experience. He enjoys influencing technical direction and ownership of architectural decisions to drive sustainable growth and stronger developer teams.
11 years of coding experience
The University of Sydney
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
commitizen10
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
windows10
web-performance10
bundler10
ember10
isolation10
inline-css10
javascript10
linux10
amazon-dynamodb10
dynamodb10
html10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
trainline/webpack-bundle-delta
Nov 2020 - May 2021
Get insights into your webpack v4 bundles as early as possible.
Contributions:3 releases, 2 reviews, 21 commits in 5 months
webpack-plugintreeshakingwebpack2statswebpack-v4
davidhouweling/guilty-spark
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
A Discord App utilizing Cloudflare Workers that allows for stats to be pulled for Halo games played in a custom game series.
Contributions:1 review, 91 PRs, 155 pushes in 5 months
discorddiscord-bothalohalo-api
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