Summary
Evgeni Shafran is an experienced engineering manager based in Melbourne with over 15 years in IT and nine years in leadership roles, currently shaping mobile engineering at Canva. He builds high-performing, happy teams by combining empathetic people management with clear vision, proven across major products at Atlassian, Afterpay, REA and AVG. A hands-on mobile specialist, Evgeni has led iOS and Android squads through rewrites, platform migrations, wallet integrations and cross-timezone delivery of complex features like bringing OpsGenie capabilities into Jira mobile. He’s pragmatic about process—introducing trunk-based development, feature toggles, and new estimation and testing practices—to accelerate delivery without sacrificing quality. Colleagues value his stakeholder empathy and knack for translating product goals into maintainable architecture and measurable user impact. Notably, he pairs deep mobile engineering roots with consistent team-building and operational improvements that scale across organisations.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Computer Science, B.Sc Computer Science at Hulon Institute of Technology
Shevah
English, Hebrew, Russian