Fergus Farrell
Software Engineer at Canva
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolFergus Farrell is a software engineer with 10 years’ experience building user-focused web applications across startups and enterprise products, now at Canva in Christchurch. He has led migrations from monoliths to monorepos, created design systems and component libraries, and consistently improved developer experience and delivery velocity. As a hands-on frontend leader and former scrum master, Fergus combines pragmatic architecture with measurable outcomes—reducing bug rates, speeding queries, and cutting feature turnaround time. His background spans full-stack Java/React work, cloud services on GCP, and fintech/healthcare domain experience, showing a strong focus on scalable, maintainable systems. Outside work he’s an avid whitewater kayaker, which echoes his iterative, risk-aware approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of Otago
English
Github Skills (17)
fastest10
graphql10
gatsby10
react10
static-site-generator9
frontend9
compiler9
firebase-extensions7
firebase5
firestore5
explore4
ecommerce3
shopify3
polaris3
craftcms3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fergusfrl/fergusfrl-portfolio
Nov 2019 - Jan 2024
My personal portfolio & blog site
Contributions:12 PRs, 82 pushes, 15 branches in 4 years 1 month
blog-sitereactportfolio-blog
fergusfrl/RiverAggregator
May 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:109 commits, 65 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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