Desmond Hsu
Senior Software Engineer at Canva
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDesmond Hsu is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with nine years of experience building distributed, event-driven systems and leading engineering teams across startups and financial institutions. He has a proven track record shipping complex projects on time—from consolidating leasing platforms and migrating monoliths to microservices, to architecting near real-time KYC pipelines and internal decision engines using Kafka, Node.js, and AWS. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and technical lead, he focuses on maintainable, observable systems, developer experience, and rigorous post-mortems that reduce support overhead. He’s also experimented with ML/AI applications—building a citation-backed LLM chatbot for taxation law during an Antler residency—highlighting a curiosity for practical AI applied to domain problems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Software Engineering at Macquarie UniversityEpping Boys High School
Github Skills (12)
plugin8
internationalization6
react-select6
owl6
react6
vue5
translation5
vue-i18n5
localization5
javascript5
falcon5
ui-components2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Dsweih/Resume
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Dsweih/taipei_real_estate_search
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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