David Nahodil
Senior Software Engineer at Canva
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Top SchoolDavid Nahodil is a senior software engineer and manager with 13 years' experience building and operating long-lived product platforms, currently contributing at Canva from Hobart, Tasmania. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering (Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS) with pragmatic technical leadership—having managed and mentored distributed teams across Australia and Europe and guided peers through promotions and RFCs. David has a track record of practical impact: launching RBAC to simplify permissions, cutting video-rendering costs through smarter caching, and delivering award-winning product launches under tight timelines. Comfortable switching between individual contributor work and people management, he excels at harmonising engineering, product and business needs while liaising with third-party vendors. A self-described recovering pedant who "deploys on Fridays," he brings careful craftsmanship and operational discipline to mature product teams.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing (with Honours) Software Engineering Bioinformatics Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor of Computing (with Honours) Software Engineering Bioinformatics Artificial Intelligence at University of Tasmania
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Github Skills (56)
geospatial10
autoprefixer9
stylelint9
babel-preset-env8
emberjs8
ember8
geoserver8
javascript8
rewrite8
ironworker7
broccoli7
javascript-framework7
adobe-xd7
frontend7
modeling6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
dnahodil/git-perfector
Nov 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:9 PRs, 8 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 6 months
scissorsgit-clientcli
dnahodil/groovy-extra-list-behaviour
Dec 2013 - Nov 2015
Contributions:70 commits, 38 PRs, 49 pushes in 2 years
javaminecraftgroovylists
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